Fatal infantile glycogen storage disease: deficiency of phosphofructokinase and phosphorylase b kinase

Neurology. 1981 Oct;31(10):1303-7. doi: 10.1212/wnl.31.10.1303.

Abstract

A girl with congenital limb weakness, mental retardation, and corneal ulceration died with respiratory insufficiency at age 4 years. Histochemistry of muscle biopsy showed only nonspecific myopathy, but electronmicroscopy revealed subsarcolemmal and intramyofibrillar accumulation of glycogen. Biochemical studies showed increased glycogen content of muscle with lack of phosphofructokinase. Phosphorylase b kinase activity was about 30% of normal. The relationship of the double enzyme deficiency to this unusual clinical picture is unclear.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Biopsy
  • Child, Preschool
  • Female
  • Glycogen / analysis
  • Glycogen Storage Disease / enzymology
  • Glycogen Storage Disease / pathology*
  • Humans
  • Infant
  • Infant, Newborn
  • Infant, Newborn, Diseases / enzymology
  • Infant, Newborn, Diseases / pathology*
  • Muscles / enzymology
  • Muscles / ultrastructure
  • Muscular Diseases / enzymology
  • Muscular Diseases / pathology*
  • Phosphofructokinase-1 / deficiency*
  • Phosphorylase Kinase / deficiency*

Substances

  • Glycogen
  • Phosphofructokinase-1
  • Phosphorylase Kinase