A study of urinary metabolites in patients with dicarboxylic aciduria for differential diagnosis

Pediatrics International - Tập 36 Số 2 - Trang 139-145 - 1994
Nobuo Shimizu1, Seiji Yamaguchi2, Tadao Orii3
1Department of Pediatrics, Gifu University School of Medicine, Japan
2Department of Pediatrics, Shimane Medical University, Shimane, Japan
3Department of Pediatrics, Gifu University School of Medicine, Gifu,,

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AbstractDicarboxylic aciduria (DCA‐uria) is a relatively common finding in the screening of organic acidemias by gas chromatography/mass spectrometry (GC/MS). A considerable number of patients with DCA‐uria are involved in disturbances of mitochondrial and peroxisomal fatty acid β‐oxidation. The differential diagnosis of DCA‐uria was investigated using a combination of organic acid analysis by GC/MS, carnitine determination, acylcarnitines by fast atom bombardment/mass spectrometry (FAB/MS) and acylglycines by stable‐isotope dilution analysis. The relative distribution of urinary metabolites was examined in 46 patients with DCA‐uria of different origins, including physiological ketosis of childhood, disorders of propionic acid metabolism, glutaric aciduria type II, Zellweger syndrome and patients who were clinically diagnosed as having Reye syndrome.Zellweger syndrome seemed to be distinguishable from other disorders by the high sebacic acid/adipic acid ratio of DCA‐uria and increased excretion of 4‐hydroxyphenyllactic acid and 2‐hydroxysebacic acid. The mild form of glutaric aciduria type II was often missed by current organic acid analysis alone, but was readily diagnosed by acylcarnitine and acylglycine determination.The ratio of free/total carnitine was low in most of the DCA‐uria patients except for two of five cases of Zellweger syndrome and one of three cases of Reye syndrome. The acylcarnitine analysis by FAB/MS showed adipyl‐, suberyl‐, sebacyl‐ or dodecanedioylcarnitine as major peaks in most of these patients, although these were not specific. Disease‐specific peaks were detectable only in congenital organic acidemias such as glutaric aciduria type II, methylmalonic acidemia and propionic acidemia.

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Pediatrics International

Tập 36 Số 2

139-145

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