Abstract
A patient with infantile onset methylmalonic aciduria and homocystinuria (Cbl-C mutant) is described. Therapy with hydroxycobalamin, folate and vitamin B6 improved his condition. As hypomethioninaemia and homocystinaemia persisted, he was treated with intramuscular methylcobalamin, but without success. Treatment with betaine started at 25 months of age, normalizèd plasma methionine and elicited disappearance of homocystinaemia. Results of biochemical studies in cultured fibroblasts paralleled those described for other Cbl-C patients except that methylmalonyl-coenzyme A mutase activity in disrupted fibroblasts was in the normal range.
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Abbreviations
- Ado-Cbl:
-
adenosylcobalamin
- Cbl:
-
cobalamin
- CoA:
-
coenzyme A
- Me-Cbl:
-
methylcobalamin
- MEM:
-
minimal essential medium
- MMA:
-
methylmalonic acid
- OH−Cbl:
-
hydroxycobalamin
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Ribes, A., Briones, P., Vilaseca, M.A. et al. Methylmalonic aciduria with homocystinuria: Biochemical studies, treatment, and clinical course of a Cbl-C patient. Eur J Pediatr 149, 412–415 (1990). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02009662
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