Brain creatine depletion: guanidinoacetate methyltransferase deficiency (improving with creatine supplementation).
case_report · Level V
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Abstract
The authors describe an Italian child with guanidinoacetate methyltransferase deficiency, neurologic regression, movement disorders, and epilepsy during the first year of life. Brain MRI showed pallidal and periaqueductal alterations. In vivo 1H-MRS showed brain creatine depletion. The assessment of guanidinoacetic acid concentration in biologic fluids confirmed the diagnosis. Clinical, biochemical, and neuroradiologic improvement followed creatine supplementation.
Medical subject headings
- Brain Chemistry
- Creatine
- Epilepsy
- Methyltransferases
- Movement Disorders