Cardiac Manifestations of Congenital Generalized Lipodystrophy
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Cardiac Manifestations of Congenital Generalized Lipodystrophy
IN BRIEF Congenital lipodystrophy is a rare genetic disorder characterized by a near-complete absence of fat cells, hypoleptinemia leading to a voracious appetite, and marked insulin resistance. This article focuses on the known cardiovascular manifestations of patients with congenital lipodystrophy, including cardiomyopathy, cardiac arrhythmias, and accelerated atherosclerosis arising from a m...
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Clinical features of congenital generalized lipodystrophy, a rare disorder, first described by Zeigler include loss of subcutaneous fat, hepatomegaly, increased bone growth, hyperlipaemia and, later, diabetes. The inheritance is probably autosomal recessive. Generalized lipodystrophy may involve the diencephalon. A probable defect in the hypothalamus may lead to increased levels of hypothalamic...
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OBJECTIVE To present the major clinical and biochemical characteristics of congenital generalized lipodystrophy. DESCRIPTION Eight infants with congenital generalized lipodystrophy were identified at the Endocrine and Nutritional Pediatric Disease Outpatient Clinics at Hospital de Clínicas, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG). Clinical manifestations common to all patients included mu...
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Congenital generalized lipodystrophy (CGL, Berardinelli-Seip syndrome) is a rare autosomal recessive disorder with a clinical presentation of paucity of adipose tissue, muscular hypertrophy, organomegaly, and insulin-resistant diabetes. A 4-month-old Taiwanese female infant had hepatosplenomegaly and low body weight gain despite a voracious appetite. Hypermetabolism, hyperhidrosis, loss of subc...
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عنوان ژورنال: Clinical Diabetes
سال: 2016
ISSN: 0891-8929,1945-4953
DOI: 10.2337/cd16-0002