OBJECTIVE: To review the antenatal manifestations of disorders of oxidative phosphorylation. STUDY DESIGN: A total of 300 cases of proven respiratory chain enzyme deficiency were retrospectively reviewed for fetal development, based on course and duration of pregnancy, antenatal ultrasonography and birth weight, length, and head circumference. Particular attention was given to fetal movements, oligo/hydramnios, fetal cardiac rhythm, fetal heart ultrasound, and ultrasonography/echo Doppler signs of brain, facial, trunk, limb, and organ anomalies. RESULTS: Retrospective analyses detected low birth weight (<3rd percentile for gestational age) in 22.7% of cases (68/300, P<.000001). Intrauterine growth retardation was either isolated (48/300, 16%) or associated with otherwise unexplained anomalies (20/300, 6.7%, P<.0001). Antenatal anomalies were usually multiple and involved several organs sharing no common function or embryologic origin. They included polyhydramnios (6/20), oligoamnios (2/20), arthrogryposis (1/20), decreased fetal movements (1/20), ventricular septal defects (2/20), hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (4/20), cardiac rhythm anomalies (4/20), hydronephrosis (3/20), vertebral abnormalities, anal atresia, cardiac abnormalities, tracheoesophageal fistula/atresia, renal agenesis and dysplasia, and limb defects (VACTERL) association (2/20), and a complex gastrointestinal malformation (1/20). CONCLUSIONS: Although a number of metabolic diseases undergo a symptom-free period, respiratory chain deficiency may have an early antenatal expression, presumably related to the time course of the disease gene expression in the embryofetal period. The mechanism triggering malformations is unknown and may include decreased ATP formation and/or an alteration of apoptotic events controlled by the mitochondria.
OBJECTIVE: To review the antenatal manifestations of disorders of oxidative phosphorylation. STUDY DESIGN: A total of 300 cases of proven respiratory chain enzyme deficiency were retrospectively reviewed for fetal development, based on course and duration of pregnancy, antenatal ultrasonography and birth weight, length, and head circumference. Particular attention was given to fetal movements, oligo/hydramnios, fetal cardiac rhythm, fetal heart ultrasound, and ultrasonography/echo Doppler signs of brain, facial, trunk, limb, and organ anomalies. RESULTS: Retrospective analyses detected low birth weight (<3rd percentile for gestational age) in 22.7% of cases (68/300, P<.000001). Intrauterine growth retardation was either isolated (48/300, 16%) or associated with otherwise unexplained anomalies (20/300, 6.7%, P<.0001). Antenatal anomalies were usually multiple and involved several organs sharing no common function or embryologic origin. They included polyhydramnios (6/20), oligoamnios (2/20), arthrogryposis (1/20), decreased fetal movements (1/20), ventricular septal defects (2/20), hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (4/20), cardiac rhythm anomalies (4/20), hydronephrosis (3/20), vertebral abnormalities, anal atresia, cardiac abnormalities, tracheoesophageal fistula/atresia, renal agenesis and dysplasia, and limb defects (VACTERL) association (2/20), and a complex gastrointestinal malformation (1/20). CONCLUSIONS: Although a number of metabolic diseases undergo a symptom-free period, respiratory chain deficiency may have an early antenatal expression, presumably related to the time course of the disease gene expression in the embryofetal period. The mechanism triggering malformations is unknown and may include decreased ATP formation and/or an alteration of apoptotic events controlled by the mitochondria.
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