Infantile Spasms without Hypsarrhythmia and Paroxysmal Eye-Head Movements in an Infant with a Pyridoxine-Dependent Epilepsy due to PLPBP/PLPHP Deficiency.

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serval:BIB_714E16963840
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Article: article from journal or magazin.
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Title
Infantile Spasms without Hypsarrhythmia and Paroxysmal Eye-Head Movements in an Infant with a Pyridoxine-Dependent Epilepsy due to PLPBP/PLPHP Deficiency.
Journal
Neuropediatrics
Author(s)
Kalser J., Giuliano F., Peralta M., Plecko B., Bölsterli B.K.
ISSN
1439-1899 (Electronic)
ISSN-L
0174-304X
Publication state
Published
Issued date
12/2023
Peer-reviewed
Oui
Volume
54
Number
6
Pages
422-425
Language
english
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Publication types: Journal Article
Publication Status: ppublish
Abstract
To describe a new phenotype and the diagnostic workup of a vitamin-B <sub>6</sub> -dependent epilepsy due to pyridoxal 5'-phosphate-binding protein (PLPBP) deficiency in an infant with early-onset epilepsy at the age of 5 years 6 months. Following immediate and impressive clinical response to treatment with pyridoxine, metabolic screening for vitamin-B <sub>6</sub> -dependent epilepsies and targeted next-generation sequencing (NGS)-based gene panel analysis were performed. Potentially pathogenic variants were confirmed by Sanger sequencing in the patient, and variants were analyzed in both parents to confirm biallelic inheritance. The clinical phenotype and course of disease were compared to the 44 cases reported in the literature, harboring variants in pyridoxal phosphate homeostasis protein (PLPHP) and with cases of vitamin-B <sub>6</sub> -dependent epilepsy due to other known causative genes. Levels of alpha-aminoadipic semialdehyde in urine and amino acids were normal. Two inherited pathogenic variations in PLPHP were found in compound heterozygosity, including one novel deletion. We here describe a previously unreported individual harboring biallelic pathogenic PLPHP variants presenting with paroxysmal eye-head movements followed by epileptic spasms and an almost normal interictal electroencephalogram, thus expanding the clinical spectrum of PLPBP deficiency. This warrants consideration of vitamin-B <sub>6</sub> -dependent epilepsies in patients with early-onset epilepsy, including epileptic spasms, and eye movement disorders also beyond the neonatal period even when metabolic screening for vitamin-B <sub>6</sub> -dependent epilepsies is negative. PLPHP should be included systematically in NGS epilepsy gene panels.
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