D,L-2-hydroxyglutaric aciduria

What it is

A rare inborn error of metabolism characterized by severe neonatal epileptic encephalopathy, episodes of apnea and respiratory distress, severe global developmental delay or absent psychomotor development, severe muscular hypotonia or absent voluntary movements, feeding difficulties and failure to thrive, absence of visual contact, abnormal brain morphology (including cerebral atrophy, ventriculomegaly and hypoplasia or dysplasia of the corpus callosum), mild dysmorphic features (frontal bossing, hypertelorism, downslanting palpebral fissures, flat nasal bridge), elevated CSF and plasma lactate and urinary Krebs cycle metabolites.

Key facts

Prevalence

<1 / 1 000 000

Age of onset

Infancy, Neonatal

Inheritance

Autosomal recessive

Classified as

Disease

Prevalence figures describe populations, not individuals, and are often estimates from a single study. Where the figure is an incidence or a birth prevalence, it says so.

Gene

ICD-10 codes

ICD-10 has no distinct code for most rare diseases, so many are filed under the nearest available one. A shared code identifies the group, not this disease — the ORPHAcode above is what identifies it.

Related health topics

Reached through the ICD-10 categories this disease is filed under, so these describe the broader group rather than this disease specifically.

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