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. 2021 Jan 14;16:28. doi: 10.1186/s13023-020-01635-x

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