Glycogenosis type I
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Autosomal recessive transmission.
Forms b, c and d are difficult to distinguish clinically and some question the existence of the c and d forms.
In 4 forms:
- hepatomegaly (sometimes splenomegaly), risk of liver adenomas and hepatomas
- muscular hypotrophy, chubby facies
- hypoglycemia with hyperlactacidemia; convulsions, coma, and mental retardation if medical treatment is not followed
- short stature,
- tendency to bleeding despite a normal or increased platelet count
- hyperuricemia with risk of urinary lithiasis
- hypertriglyceridemia (xanthomas)
- nephromegaly
- osteoporosis.
Treatments: continuous glucose intake (night gavage with starch solutions); in case of failure: liver transplantation.
Anesthetic implications:
prolonged preanesthetic fasting should be avoided; check platelet function (thromboelastography); monitoring of glucose and lactic acid. A case of postoperative major hyperthermia falsely suspected of malignant hyperthermia has been reported as well as a case of pancreatitis secondary to hypertriglyceridemia due to the use of a continuous infusion of propofol in a child suffering of the type Ia.
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Updated: April 2019