1/19. brain ultrastructure in Reye's syndrome.Cerebral biopsies were obtained for electron microscopy 48 and 72 hours after the onset of encephalopathy from a child with severe Reye's syndrome. Gravely ill at the time of craniectomy to relieve cerebral hypertension, the child survived and recovered good brain function; therefore, the biopsy findings appear to reflect the organelle pathology of the brain at a severe yet reversible stage in the disease process. The cardinal ultrastructural changes in the brain in Reye's syndrome are astrocyte swelling and partial deglycogenation, myelin bleb formation and universal injury of neuron mitochondria. The mitochondrial injury consists of matrix disruption with moderate but not massive swelling. dilatation of rough endoplasmic reticulum and nuclear changes occurred only in neurons with severely altered mitochondria. The organelle pathology of the brain in this case did not resemble the organelle pathology of the brain in human "hepatic encephalopathy" or in experimental ammonia intoxication in primates. The mitochondrial ultrastructure of the cerebral neurons resembled the unique mitochondrial ultrastructural changes seen in the liver parenchyma in Reye's syndrome.- - - - - - - - - - ranking = 1keywords = brain (Clic here for more details about this article) |
2/19. Pontocerebellar hypoplasia type 2 and Reye-like syndrome.Pontocerebellar hypoplasia is an autosomal recessive syndrome with onset during the fetal period. Two subtypes of pontocerebellar hypoplasia have been described on the basis of clinical and neuropathologic criteria. Pontocerebellar hypoplasia type 2 is characterized by progressive microcephaly, early onset of extrapyramidal dyskinesia, and near absence of motor and cognitive development, without signs of either spinal or peripheral involvement. We report a clinical observation of a patient with pontocerebellar hypoplasia type 2, a 3-year-old girl with progressive microcephaly, dystonic limb movements, and absence of motor and cognitive development. Cranial magnetic resonance imaging revealed pontocerebellar hypoplasia. At the age of 2 years, she suffered a Reye-like syndrome that worsened her condition. Differential diagnosis was established with intrauterine injuries, other malformative syndromes, and neurodegenerative or neurometabolic disorders, which can be associated with cerebellar hypoplasia.- - - - - - - - - - ranking = 149.54901239235keywords = metabolic disorder (Clic here for more details about this article) |
3/19. Primary systemic carnitine deficiency presenting as recurrent Reye-like syndrome and dilated cardiomyopathy.Carnitine deficiency syndrome is a rare and potentially fatal but treatable metabolic disorder. I present a 6-year-old girl with primary systemic carnitine deficiency (SCD) proved by very low plasma carnitine level. Her major clinical features included neonatal metabolic acidosis, epilepsy, recurrent infections, acute encephalopathy, and dilated cardiomyopathy with heart failure before 4 years of age. Other features such as hepatomegaly, hypoglycemia, or hyperammonemia were noted around 5 years of age. Her health improved with resolving cardiomyopathy after the use of L-carnitine (50-100 mg/kg/day). patients with SCD have high morbidity and mortality. If SCD is suggested as a cause of Reye-like syndrome or dilated cardiomyopathy, L-carnitine therapy should be initiated as a diagnostic test immediately, until the definite diagnosis is confirmed.- - - - - - - - - - ranking = 149.54901239235keywords = metabolic disorder (Clic here for more details about this article) |
4/19. The thalamus and midbrain in reye syndrome.A previously healthy 5 1/2-year-old male had reye syndrome. He presented in coma with apnea 1 week after a viral infection and following 2 days of vomiting and progressive obtundation. He was in coma with dystonic posturing and intact brainstem function. Laboratory evaluation revealed initial hypoglycemia, and markedly elevated liver enzymes, prolonged clotting times, and elevated ammonia levels. No underlying metabolic disorder was present, and the patient completely recovered. On a modified diffusion-weighted image magnetic resonance imaging scan, restriction of diffusion in the thalamus and midbrain was observed. While abnormalities of the thalamus and midbrain have previously been reported, this is the first report of diffusion-weighted imaging indicating early impairment of water diffusion, a finding more commonly observed with stroke.- - - - - - - - - - ranking = 150.94901239235keywords = metabolic disorder, brain (Clic here for more details about this article) |
5/19. Metabolic stroke in three years old boy as the consequence of metabolic derangement. A case report of recidiving Reye's-like syndrome.Three years old boy with developmental renal dysplasia was hit as newborn child by attack of cerebral edema with metabolic disturbances (hypoglycemia, hypophosphatemia, ketoacidosis and with hypocoagulation state) and was classified as child at risk in the pediatric evidence. In the third year of the age he went through nephrectomy and after the operation, the similar metabolic disturbances occurred (hypoglycemia, ketoacidosis, derangement of the metabolic situation). Cerebral edema and the metabolic stroke developed. Reye's-like syndrome was considered and serious functional disturbances of basal ganglia and brain-stem structure were observed.- - - - - - - - - - ranking = 0.2keywords = brain (Clic here for more details about this article) |
6/19. Reye's syndrome associated with acute myocarditis and fatal circulatory failure.We describe an eight-month-old infant who had an unusually fulminant and fatal course of Reye's syndrome. The patient died 36 hours after admission because of irreversible circulatory failure not associated with clinical symptoms of increased intracranial pressure or cerebral herniation. autopsy revealed the pathognomonic fatty degeneration of the liver and heart of Reye's syndrome, but the brain was normal. In addition, a marked inflammatory infiltration of the myocardium was also observed, which indicated that acute myocarditis had been the preceding underlying disease. This case report emphasizes the fact that the viral prodrome preceding Reye's syndrome may not be as benign as often observed with influenza and varicella. Acute myocarditis and Reye's syndrome are also a combination which may result in fatal cardiovascular collapse.- - - - - - - - - - ranking = 0.2keywords = brain (Clic here for more details about this article) |
7/19. adult Reye's syndrome: a review with new evidence for a generalized defect in intramitochondrial enzyme processing.A 42-year-old woman developed a flu-like illness and died 8 days later with Reye's syndrome (RS). There are 26 other cases of adult-onset RS reported. Biochemical, immunologic, and molecular studies of liver, brain, and skeletal muscle revealed a non-uniform decrease in several mitochondrial residual enzyme activities in liver and brain. pyruvate carboxylase activity was negligible. Cross-reacting material was present in normal abundance in isolated liver mitochondria for several enzymes that had reduced catalytic activity including pyruvate carboxylase. Subunit II (encoded by mitochondrial dna) and subunit IV (encoded by nuclear dna) of cytochrome c oxidase also were present in normal abundance with normal electrophoretic mobility. These observations, combined with pertinent findings of other investigators, allow us to speculate that the intramitochondrial matrix chemical environment is disturbed by preceding pathophysiologic events resulting in a lowered ATP/ADP ratio. The lowered intramitochondrial energetic state interferes with the refolding and assembly of imported mitochondrial proteins, causing a loss of the catalytic efficiency of these enzymes. This explains the selective vulnerability of mitochondria in RS and the non-uniform, disproportionate loss of enzyme activity.- - - - - - - - - - ranking = 0.4keywords = brain (Clic here for more details about this article) |
8/19. brain and liver pathology in a patient with carnitine deficiency.The ultrastructural brain and liver pathology in an infant, who died of acute encephalopathy due to systemic carnitine deficiency (CD), an important condition mimicking Reye's syndrome (RS), was reported. The major finding in the brain was swelling of astrocyte cytoplasm. Expanded mitochondria in nerve cells and myelin sheath splitting in the white matter, which have been reported to be specific to RS, were not observed. Also in contrast to findings in RS, hepatocytes were filled with macrovesicular fat droplets without expanded mitochondria. These findings suggest significant differences in the pathophysiology of acute encephalopathy in CD and RS, although the clinical and laboratory findings during an episode of acute encephalopathy in the former are usually very similar to those in the latter.- - - - - - - - - - ranking = 0.4keywords = brain (Clic here for more details about this article) |
9/19. Diagnostic and therapeutic implications of medium-chain acylcarnitines in the medium-chain acyl-coa dehydrogenase deficiency.The medium-chain acyl-coa dehydrogenase deficiency is one of several metabolic disorders presenting clinically as reye syndrome. Evidence is presented for a characteristic organic aciduria that distinguishes this disorder from reye syndrome and other masqueraders characterized by dicarboxylic aciduria. The key metabolites, suberylglycine and hexanoylglycine, are excreted in high concentration only when the patients are acutely ill. More significantly, using novel techniques in mass spectrometry, the medium-chain defect is shown to be characterized by excretion of specific medium-chain acylcarnitines, mostly octanoylcarnitine, without significant excretion of a normal metabolite, acetylcarnitine, in four patients with documented enzyme deficiency. Similar studies on the urine of two patients reported with Reye-like syndromes of unidentified etiology have suggested the retrospective diagnosis of medium-chain acyl-coa dehydrogenase deficiency. Administration of L-carnitine to medium-chain acyl-coa dehydrogenase deficiency patients resulted in the enhanced excretion of medium-chain acylcarnitines. Octanoylcarnitine is prominent in the urine both prior to and following L-carnitine supplementation. The detection of this metabolite as liberated octanoic acid, following ion-exchange chromatographic purification and mild alkaline hydrolysis, provides a straightforward diagnostic procedure for recognition of this disorder without subjecting patients to the significant risk of fasting. In view of the carnitine deficiency and the demonstrated ability to excrete the toxic medium-chain acyl-coA compounds as acylcarnitines, a combined therapy of reduced dietary fat and L-carnitine supplementation (25 mg/kg/6 h) has been devised and applied with positive outcome in two new cases.- - - - - - - - - - ranking = 149.54901239235keywords = metabolic disorder (Clic here for more details about this article) |
10/19. Recurrent Reye-like syndrome: possible association with Krebs cycle abnormality.During a 7-year period, a 15-year-old boy experienced recurrent attacks that clinically and pathologically resembled Reye's syndrome. The attacks were precipitated by prolonged exercise, fasting or infections. An extensive investigation failed to identify a toxic cause or specific metabolic disorder. Low 14CO2 production after in vitro incubation of the patient's liver with 14C-labeled palmitate, citrate and glutamine suggested a defect in the Krebs cycle or the oxidative phosphorylation pathway. This error may be responsible for the recurrent Reye-like syndrome attacks.- - - - - - - - - - ranking = 149.54901239235keywords = metabolic disorder (Clic here for more details about this article) |
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