Table 1.
Underlying LC-FAOD diagnosis, organ involvement and clinical outcome in 12 Austrian LC-FAOD patients
| Patient | Sex | Current age (years) | LC-FAOD diagnosis | Age at diagnosis (months) | Clinical symptoms (decompensation) at diagnosis | Newborn screening | Age at start of C7 therapy (years) | Hepatopathy2 | Cardiomyopathy3 | Retinopathy | NG or PEG tube | Special-needs school | Poly-neuropathy | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| At age (months/years) | At age (months/years) | At age (months/years) | ||||||||||||||
| 1 | Male | 20.5 | LCHADD | 23.1 | Yes | Not yet established1 | 4.8 | Yes | 23/1.9 | Yes | 23/1.9 | Yes | 98/8.2 | No | No | No |
| 2 | Female | 14.2 | LCHADD | 1.6 | No | Negative at firsta1 | 0.7 | No | – | No | – | Yes | 69/5.8 | No | No | No |
| 3 | Male | 9.1 | LCHADD | 0.3 | No | Positive | 0.6 | Yes | 9/0.7 | Yes | 9/0.7 | Yes | 78/6.5 | No | No | No |
| 4 | Female | 4.8 | LCHADD | 0.4 | Yes | Positive | 1.0 | Yes | 2/0.2 | Yes | 3/0.3 | Yes | 24/2.0 | No | No | No |
| 5 | Female | 5.0 | LCHADD | 0.0 | No | Positive | 1.0 | No | – | No | – | No | – | No | No | No |
| 6 | Female | 3.1 | VLCADD | 0.0 | No | Positive | 0.0 | No | – | Yes | 10/0.8 | No | – | No | No | No |
| 7 | Female | 4.1 | LCHADD | 0.0 | No | Positive | 0.1 | No | – | No | – | No | – | No | No | No |
| 8 | Female | 4.1 | LCHADD | 0.0 | No | Positive | 0.1 | No | – | No | – | No | – | No | No | No |
| 9 | Male | 9.1 | CPTII | 4.1 | No | Positive | 7.9 | Yes | 2/0.2 | Yes | 3/0.3 | No | – | No | No | No |
| 10 | Male | 11.6 | LCHADD | 5.5 | Yes | Negative at firsta1 | 3.7 | Yes | 5/0.4 | Yes | 5/0.4 | Yes | 38/3.2 | Yes | No | No |
| 11 | Male | 13.7 | LCHADD | 0.0 | Yes | Positive | 11.6 | Yes | 113/9.4 | Yes | 139/11.6c | Yes | 38/3.2 | No | Yes | Yese |
| 12 | Male | 32.0 | VLCADD | 36.0 | Yes | Not yet establisheda | 29.4 | Yes | 376/31.3 | Yes | 36/3c | No | – | No | No | No |
| Median | 9.1 | 0.35 | 1.0 | 9/0.7 | 9.5/0.8 | 53/4.4 | ||||||||||
Patients 3, 7 and 8 are siblings; Patient 11 has two affected siblings without triheptanoin therapy; Patient 12 has two affected siblings, one deceased and one without triheptanoin therapy. All other patients have no affected siblings
Patient 1 was previously reported in: JIMD Reports (2014), Karall et al. (https://doi.org/10.1007/8904_2014_313) [14]
Patients 1, 2, 3 and 10 were previously reported in: Orphanet J. Rare Dis. (2015) 10:21, Karall et al. (https://doi.org/10.1186/s13023-015-0236-7) [15], Patient 1 is Patient 2, Patient 2 is Patient 4, Patient 3 is Patient 6, Patient 10 is Patient 8
Patient 10 was previously reported in: Orphanet J Rare Dis. (2018) 13: 122, Lotz-Havla et. al. (https://doi.org/10.1186/s13023-018-0875-6) [16], Patient 10 is Patient 3
C7: triheptanoin; LC-FAOD: long-chain fatty acid oxidation disorder; LCHADD: long-chain 3-hydroxy acyl-CoA dehydrogenase deficiency; VLCADD: very long-chain acyl-CoA dehydrogenase deficiency; CPT2: carnitine palmitoyl transferase 2 deficiency; NG: nasogastric; PEG: percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy
aborn before April 2002, when newborn screening for LC-FAOD was implemented in Austria
a1Newborn screening was false-negative due to prematurity and parenteral nutrition with carnitine supplementation
bAt study date, all patients have normal liver function tests
cIn Patients 1, 6, 10, 11, 12, cardiomyopathy was dilatative; in Patients 3, 4, 9 hypertrophic. At study date Patients 1, 3, 4, 6, 9, 10 have normal cardiac function. In Patients 11 and 12 cardiac function is impaired, cardiomyopathy has not resolved
dRetinopathy findings are stable in all patients at study date. Patients 1 and 10 wear glasses for myopia
eWheelchair-bound