The metabolic error in primary hyperoxaluria.

The metabolic error in primary hyperoxaluria.

Knowledge of the incidence of a disease in successive generations of a family has value beyond the basis it provides for prediction of the health of future generations. Should the incidence suggest inheritance according to simple Mendelian rules, the disease probably has its origin in abnormality of a single genetic particle, though this has never been directly demonstrated. Garrod (1908) linke...

Primary Hyperoxaluria

Primary hyperoxalurias are rare recessive inherited inborn errors of glyoxylate metabolism. They are responsible for progressive renal involvement, which further lead to systemic oxalate deposition, which can even occur in infants. Primary hyperoxaluria type 1 is the most common form in Europe and is due to alanine-glyoxylate aminostransferase deficiency, a hepatic peroxisomal pyridoxin-depende...

Primary hyperoxaluria

Primary hyperoxaluria in an infant

doi: 10.1007/s12519-010-0214-z ©Children's Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, China and Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2010. All rights reserved. Background: Primary hyperoxaluria type 1 is a rare disorder caused by a defect in the hepatic metabolism of glyoxylate. Cases presenting in infancy are very uncommon and often have a severe course leading to early end-stage renal fai...

The action of pyridoxine in primary hyperoxaluria.

1. Evidence of deficiency of, antagonism to, or abnormal dependency upon pyridoxine has been sought in four patients with primary hyperoxaluria. The urinary excretion of kynurenine, 3-hydroxykyurenineY 3-hydroxyanthranilic acid, kynurenic acid and xanthurenic acid, before and after a loading dose of L-tryptophan was used to assess pyridoxine nutrition. 2. Three of the four patients studied had ...