Glutaric acidemia type 2
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Glutaric acidemia type 2 is an autosomal recessive metabolic disorder that is characterised by defects in the ability of the body to use proteins and fats for energy. Incompletely processed proteins and fats can build up, leading to a dangerous chemical imbalance called acidosis. It is a metabolic myopathy, categorized under fatty acid metabolism disorder as that is the bioenergetic system that it affects the most. It also affects choline metabolism.[2]
Glutaric acidemia type 2 | |
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Other names | Multiple acyl-CoA dehydrogenase deficiency (MADD);[1] Glutaric academia/aceduria type II (GA-II) |
Glutaric acid | |
Specialty | Medical genetics |
The phenotypic presentation has 3 forms: a neonatal-onset form with congenital anomalies (type I), a neonatal-onset form without congenital anomalies (type II), and a late-onset form (type III).[3]
Individuals with glutaric acidemia type 2 frequently experience exercise-induced muscle fatigue, hypotonia, myalgia, and proximal muscle weakness.[4] The symptoms not only overlap with another type of metabolic myopathy, that of mitochondrial myopathy, but MADD also impairs the FAD-dependent respiratory chain in the mitochondria of muscle cells, as well as some muscle biopsies showing COX-negative fibres and deficiency of coenzyme Q10.[5][2]