1. Life-threatening lactic acidosis occurring in adults with mitochondrial disorders
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C. Pottier, Claude Jardel, Bruno Eymard, A. Slama, Tarek Sharshar, Fanny Mochel, Anthony Behin, P. Laforêt, F. Mallard, Anne Lombès, M. Brisset, Institut du Cerveau et de la Moëlle Epinière = Brain and Spine Institute (ICM), Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-CHU Pitié-Salpêtrière [AP-HP], Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Service de Génétique médicale [CHU Pitié-Salpêtrière], CHU Pitié-Salpêtrière [AP-HP], Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP)-Sorbonne Université (SU), Institut Cochin (IC UM3 (UMR 8104 / U1016)), and Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Paris (UP)
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Adult ,Male ,Weakness ,medicine.medical_specialty ,Mitochondrial Diseases ,Critical Care ,medicine.medical_treatment ,[SDV]Life Sciences [q-bio] ,Critical Illness ,Gastroenterology ,law.invention ,03 medical and health sciences ,0302 clinical medicine ,Mitochondrial myopathy ,law ,Intensive care ,Internal medicine ,medicine ,Humans ,030212 general & internal medicine ,Dialysis ,Retrospective Studies ,Muscle biopsy ,medicine.diagnostic_test ,business.industry ,medicine.disease ,Intensive care unit ,3. Good health ,Neurology ,Lactic acidosis ,Acidosis, Lactic ,Female ,Neurology (clinical) ,medicine.symptom ,Emergencies ,Severe lactic acidosis ,business ,030217 neurology & neurosurgery - Abstract
Although relatively common in children, severe acute lactic acidosis is rare in adults with mitochondrial myopathies. We report here three cases, aged 27, 32 and 32 years, who developed life-threatening metabolic crisis with severe lactic acidosis, requiring hospitalisation in intensive care unit. Plasma lactates were elevated 10 to 15 fold normal values, necessitating extra-renal dialysis. By contrast CK levels were moderately increased (3 to 5N). No triggering factor was identified, but retrospectively all patients reported long-lasting mild muscle fatigability and weakness before their acute metabolic crisis. All of them recovered after prolonged intensive care but resting lactate levels remained elevated. Muscle biopsy showed ragged-red and COX-negative fibers in two patients and mild lipidosis in the third one. Heteroplasmic pathogenic point mutations were detected in MT-TL1 (m.3280G>A;m.3258C>T) and MT-TK (m.8363A>G). Life-threatening lactic acidosis may thus be a major inaugural clinical manifestation in adults with mitochondrial myopathies. Prolonged intensive care may lead to a dramatic and sustained improvement and is mandatory in such cases.
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- 2018