Differential diagnosis of muscular hypotonia in infants: the kyphoscoliotic type of Ehlers-Danlos syndrome (EDS VI)
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Differential diagnosis of muscular hypotonia in infants: the kyphoscoliotic type of Ehlers-Danlos syndrome (EDS VI)
Abstract
The kyphoscoliotic type of Ehlers-Danlos syndrome (EDS VI) (OMIM 225400) is an inherited connective tissue disorder characterized by hypotonia and kyphoscoliosis at birth, joint hypermobility, and skin hyperelasticity and fragility. Biochemically, it is characterized by a deficiency of collagen lysyl hydroxylase (EC 1.14.11.4) due to mutations in PLOD1. This deficiency results in underhydroxylation of collagen lysyl residues and, hence, an abnormal pattern of lysyl pyridinoline (LP) and hydroxylysyl pyridinoline (HP) crosslinks excreted in the urine. Because of hypotonia and delay in gross motor development, a neuromuscular disease is usually suspected, and in most cases the diagnosis is considered only very late, after performing an invasive neuromuscular work-up with normal results. We report a 12-month-old boy with kyphoscoliosis and delayed gross motor development, in whom the differential diagnosis of kyphoscoliotic type of Ehlers-Danlos syndrome (EDS VI) was initially suspected and successively confirmed by the abnormal urinary ratio of total pyridinolines (LP to HP), and by mutation analysis. We advocate the analysis of urinary pyridinolines in all infants with severe hypotonia which is highly specific and sensitive, quick and inexpensive.
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Differential diagnosis of muscular hypotonia in infants: the kyphoscoliotic type of Ehlers-Danlos syndrome (EDS VI).Neuromuscul Disord. 2008 Nov;18(11):906; author reply 907. doi: 10.1016/j.nmd.2008.05.016. Epub 2008 Sep 23. Neuromuscul Disord. 2008. PMID: 18815038 No abstract available.
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