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Arch Dis Child Fetal Neonatal Ed 2001;85:F217-F219 doi:10.1136/fn.85.3.F217
  • Case report

Neonatal severe intractable diarrhoea as the presenting manifestation of an unclassified congenital disorder of glycosylation (CDG-x)

  1. K Mentiona,
  2. L Michauda,
  3. D Dobbelaereb,
  4. D Guimbera,
  5. F Gottranda,
  6. D Turcka
  1. aDivision of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition, Lille University Faculty of Medicine and Children's Hospital, Lille, France, bDivision of Metabolic Diseases, Department of Paediatrics
  1. Professor Turck, Unité de Gastroentérologie, Hépatologie et Nutrition, Clinique de Pédiatrie, Hôpital Jeanne de Flandre, 2, avenue Oscar Lambret, 59037 Lille Cédex, Francedturck{at}chru-lille.fr
  • Accepted 25 July 2001

Abstract

A case of severe and protracted diarrhoea is reported, which started in the neonatal period and progressively associated with neurological impairment, dysmorphy, hepatosplenomegaly, and hepatic insufficiency, from which the patient died at 2 years of age. Isoelectric focusing of serum transferrin showed a congenital disorder of glycosylation type I pattern but the basic defect could not be identified. This observation shows that congenital disorder of glycosylation is a cause of intractable diarrhoea in neonates.

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