A girl presented with an important growth retardation, hepatomegaly, fasting hypoglycemia, lactic acidosis, increased serum cholesterol, triglycerides and uric acid, and increased liver glycogen (7.5%). There was no rise in blood glucose after IV galactose or fructose, but glucagon gave a delayed response. Type lb glycogen storage disease was suggested by the low normal activity of glucose-6-phosphatase (G-6-Pase) which reached 1.8 units/g (normal, 2 to 10 units/g) and the normal activity of other glycogenolytic enzymes, measured in homogenates prepared in H2O from previously frozen liver tissue. After portacaval shunt (PCS), height increased by 29 cm in 3 years. Serum cholesterol decreased from 618 to 216 mg/dl, and triglycerides decreased from 890 to 116 mg/ dl. During an oral glucose tolerance test, peak values for glucose (mg/dl) and insulin (/iunits/ml) were, respectively, 210 and 50 before and 280 and 90 after PCS. Sixty min after the IV administration of a tracer dose of [2-3H; U-14Clglucose, the 3H/14C ratio in blood glucose decreased to 24% of its initial value indicating a functional G-6-Pase (mean ± S.E. in control subjects: 59% ± 7; in type la CSD: 92% ± 3). The activity of C-6-Pase measured as described above increased to 3.8 units/g of liver 1 year after PCS and 7.85 units/g of liver after 3 years. At that time, a simultaneous assay of the enzyme in a fresh, previously not frozen liver biopsy, homogenized in 0.25 M sucrose, revealed only about 29% of the activity of the same sample prepared in H2O (mean ± S.E. in three controls: 95.8% ± 8.9). Speculation: The higher than normal utilization of [2-3; U-14] glucose observed after portacaval shunt in this patient suggests that besides the postulated defect of the microsomal glucose-6-phos- phate transport system (19), other hitherto unexplored pathogenetic mechanisms should be investigated, including the regulation of the synthesis of glucose-6-phosphatase, to explain the impaired degradation of glycogen in type lb glycogen storage disease. © 1981 International Pediatric Research Foundation, Inc.
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Corbeel, L., Hue, L., Lederer, B., De Barsy, T., Van Den Berghe, G., Devlieger, H., … Eeckels, R. (1981). Clinical and biochemical findings before and after portacaval shunt in a girl with type IB glycogen storage disease. Pediatric Research, 15(1), 58–61. https://doi.org/10.1203/00006450-198101000-00014
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