Aciduria: 3-methylglutaconic type 4
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(AGM type 4)
Heterogeneous group of patients having an excessive elimination of 3-methyl-glutaconic in the urine but whose reported symptoms do not correspond to the types 1, 2, or 3.
First symptoms during the 1st year of life:
- hypotonia, psychomotor retardation
- epilepsy
- progressive spasticity
- cardiomyopathy
- liver disorders with lactic acidosis
- hypoglycemia, thrombocytopenia
In some cases, a mitochondrial respiratory chain dysfunction has been identified
Anesthetic implications:
go to mitochondrial cytopathies
References:
Updated: December 2019