J Brismar1, P T Ozand. 1. Department of Diagnostic Radiology, King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Centre, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
Abstract
PURPOSE: To identify a pattern of findings on CT or MR of the brain in glutaric acidemia type I typical enough to permit a correct diagnosis. METHODS: Clinical history and findings and brain CT and MR results in 59 previously reported patients (MR in 12) and in 5 new patients (all examined with MR and 3 also with CT) were reviewed. RESULTS: In half the patients macrocephaly was present, and in half the onset was acute, often following infection and mimicking encephalitis. Although brain atrophy or hypoplasia was found in 61% and white matter changes in 51% of the patients, open opercula (usually very widely open) and often also wide cerebrospinal fluid spaces anterior to the temporal lobes were seen in 93%. Basal ganglia lesions, presenting as volume loss and high T2 signal in the caudate head and often also the lentiform nucleus bilaterally, were found in 44% and extracerebral fluid collections in 7 of 64 patients. CONCLUSION: The finding of very widely open opercula suggests glutaric acidemia type I, and if combined with basal ganglia lesions is almost pathognomonic, especially in a child with macrocephaly.
PURPOSE: To identify a pattern of findings on CT or MR of the brain in glutaric acidemia type I typical enough to permit a correct diagnosis. METHODS: Clinical history and findings and brain CT and MR results in 59 previously reported patients (MR in 12) and in 5 new patients (all examined with MR and 3 also with CT) were reviewed. RESULTS: In half the patientsmacrocephaly was present, and in half the onset was acute, often following infection and mimicking encephalitis. Although brain atrophy or hypoplasia was found in 61% and white matter changes in 51% of the patients, open opercula (usually very widely open) and often also wide cerebrospinal fluid spaces anterior to the temporal lobes were seen in 93%. Basal ganglia lesions, presenting as volume loss and high T2 signal in the caudate head and often also the lentiform nucleus bilaterally, were found in 44% and extracerebral fluid collections in 7 of 64 patients. CONCLUSION: The finding of very widely open opercula suggests glutaric acidemia type I, and if combined with basal ganglia lesions is almost pathognomonic, especially in a child with macrocephaly.
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