Kidney non-tumor - Glutaric acidemia type II

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Kidney non-tumor

Hereditary renal disease

Glutaric acidemia type II

Reviewers: Nikhil Sangle, M.D. (see Reviewers page)
Revised: 29 August 2012, last major update August 2012
Copyright: (c) 2003-2012, PathologyOutlines.com, Inc.

General
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● Metabolic disorder due to deficiency of flavoprotein or its oxyreductase (Arch Pathol Lab Med 1988;112:1133)

Clinical features
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● Acidosis, non-ketotic hypoglycemia, hyperammonemia, dysmorphic facial features, urinary organic acidemia and “sweat sock” odor
● May have lipid accumulation in liver, heart and renal tubular epithelium
● May cause sudden death or an acute life-threatening event during first year of life (Mol Genet Metab 2008;93:36)

Case reports
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● 23 year old woman with adult onset presentation with myopathy (J Clin Neuromuscul Dis 2003;4:124)

Micro description
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● Subcortical renal glomerular cysts, renal medullary dysplasia

Electron microscopy description
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● Cytoplasmic, homogenous and moderately electron dense bodies with a limiting membrane (Arch Pathol Lab Med 1986;110:399)

Molecular description
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● Various mutations (Eur J Clin Invest 2002;32:707, Mol Genet Metab 2002;77:86)

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