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. 2013 May;131(5):e1670-5.
doi: 10.1542/peds.2012-2988. Epub 2013 Apr 15.

Reversible lactic acidosis in a newborn with thiamine transporter-2 deficiency

Belén Pérez-Dueñas  1 , Mercedes Serrano, Mónica Rebollo, Jordi Muchart, Eva Gargallo, Celine Dupuits, Rafael Artuch
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Reversible lactic acidosis in a newborn with thiamine transporter-2 deficiency

Belén Pérez-Dueñas et al. Pediatrics. 2013 May.

Abstract

Thiamine transporter-2 deficiency is a recessive disease caused by mutations in the SLC19A3 gene. Patients manifest acute episodes of encephalopathy; symmetric lesions in the cortex, basal ganglia, thalami or periaqueductal gray matter, and a dramatic response to biotin or thiamine. We report a 30-day-old patient with mutations in the SLC19A3 gene who presented with acute encephalopathy and increased level of lactate in the blood (8.6 mmol/L) and cerebrospinal fluid (7.12 mmol/L), a high excretion of α-ketoglutarate in the urine, and increased concentrations of the branched-chain amino acids leucine and isoleucine in the plasma. MRI detected bilateral and symmetric cortico-subcortical lesions involving the perirolandic area, bilateral putamina, and medial thalami. Some lesions showed low apparent diffusion coefficient values suggesting an acute evolution; others had high values likely to be subacute or chronic, most likely related to the perinatal period. After treatment with thiamine and biotin, irritability and opisthotonus disappeared, and the patient recovered consciousness. Biochemical disturbances also disappeared within 48 hours. After discontinuing biotin, the patient remained stable for 6 months on thiamine supplementation (20 mg/kg/day). The examination revealed subtle signs of neurologic sequelae, and MRI showed necrotic changes and volume loss in some affected areas. Our observations suggest that patients with thiamine transporter 2 deficiency may be vulnerable to metabolic decompensation during the perinatal period, when energy demands are high. Thiamine defects should be excluded in newborns and infants with lactic acidosis because prognosis largely depends on the time from diagnosis to thiamine supplementation.

Keywords: Leigh syndrome lactic acidosis; SLC19A3 gene; biotin; mitochondrial encephalopathy; perinatal brain injury; thiamine; thiamine transporter-2.

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