News on Clinical Details and Treatment in PGM1-CDG.

ABSTRACT: Phosphoglucomutase 1 deficiency has recently been reported as a novel disease that belongs to two different classes of metabolic disorders, congenital disorders of glycosylation (CDG) and glycogen storage diseases.This paper focuses on previously reported siblings with short stature, hypothyroidism, increased transaminases, and, in one of them, dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM). An intronic point mutation in the PGM1-gene (c.1145-222 G>T) leads to a complex alternative splicing pattern and to almost complete absence of PGM1 activity.Exercise-induced muscle fatigue, chest pain, and rhabdomyolysis persisted into adulthood. Fainting occurred during the first minutes of strong exercise due to glucose depletion and serum heart troponin was increased. A second wind phenomenon with an improvement in e

SUBMITTER: Schrapers E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5580736 | biostudies-literature | 2016

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature