TY - JOUR
T1 - Occurrence of subdural hematomas in Dutch glutaric aciduria type 1 patients
AU - Vester, Marloes E.M.
AU - Visser, Gepke
AU - Wijburg, Frits A.
AU - van Spronsen, Francjan J.
AU - Williams, Monique
AU - van Rijn, Rick R.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2016, The Author(s).
PY - 2016/7/1
Y1 - 2016/7/1
N2 - Patients with glutaric aciduria type 1 (GA1), a rare inherited metabolic disorder, have an increased risk for subdural hematomas (SDHs). GA1 is therefore generally included in the differential diagnosis of children presenting with SDHs. This retrospective cohort study reviews all 25 registered, in the Dutch Diagnosis Registration for Metabolic Disorders, GA1 patients in the Netherlands. This was done between May 2014 and November 2014 to determine the lifetime incidence of SDHs in this population. Seventeen patients were diagnosed either due to clinical symptoms or because of family members with GA1. One out of these 17 had a SDH. This patient showed widened Sylvian fissures on MRI, characteristic for GA1. Eight patients were diagnosed by newborn screening. Three of them had neuroimaging results, and none of them had SDHs. This study shows an overall lower incidence (4.0 %) of SDHs in patients with GA1 than reported in the literature (20–30 %). Conclusion: This finding, in combination with the fact that SDHs in GA1 appear to occur only in the presence of characteristic brain abnormalities on imaging, we recommend that GA1 should not routinely be a part of the differential diagnosis of children with unexplained SDHs in the absence of imaging characteristics suggestive of GA1. What is known:• Glutaric aciduria type 1 is a rare metabolic disorder predisposing children to subdural hematoma development due to brain abnormalities.• Because of these subdural hematomas, glutaric aciduria type 1 testing is part of abusive head trauma work-up.What is new:• The overall subdural hematoma incidence in glutaric aciduria type 1 patients is much lower than previously reported and only occurs in case of predisposing brain abnormalities.
AB - Patients with glutaric aciduria type 1 (GA1), a rare inherited metabolic disorder, have an increased risk for subdural hematomas (SDHs). GA1 is therefore generally included in the differential diagnosis of children presenting with SDHs. This retrospective cohort study reviews all 25 registered, in the Dutch Diagnosis Registration for Metabolic Disorders, GA1 patients in the Netherlands. This was done between May 2014 and November 2014 to determine the lifetime incidence of SDHs in this population. Seventeen patients were diagnosed either due to clinical symptoms or because of family members with GA1. One out of these 17 had a SDH. This patient showed widened Sylvian fissures on MRI, characteristic for GA1. Eight patients were diagnosed by newborn screening. Three of them had neuroimaging results, and none of them had SDHs. This study shows an overall lower incidence (4.0 %) of SDHs in patients with GA1 than reported in the literature (20–30 %). Conclusion: This finding, in combination with the fact that SDHs in GA1 appear to occur only in the presence of characteristic brain abnormalities on imaging, we recommend that GA1 should not routinely be a part of the differential diagnosis of children with unexplained SDHs in the absence of imaging characteristics suggestive of GA1. What is known:• Glutaric aciduria type 1 is a rare metabolic disorder predisposing children to subdural hematoma development due to brain abnormalities.• Because of these subdural hematomas, glutaric aciduria type 1 testing is part of abusive head trauma work-up.What is new:• The overall subdural hematoma incidence in glutaric aciduria type 1 patients is much lower than previously reported and only occurs in case of predisposing brain abnormalities.
KW - Abusive head trauma
KW - Forensic radiology
KW - Glutaric aciduria type 1
KW - Metabolic disorder
KW - Subdural hematoma
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U2 - 10.1007/s00431-016-2734-6
DO - 10.1007/s00431-016-2734-6
M3 - Article
C2 - 27246831
AN - SCOPUS:84973174724
SN - 0340-6199
VL - 175
SP - 1001
EP - 1006
JO - European Journal of Pediatrics
JF - European Journal of Pediatrics
IS - 7
ER -