Juvenile neuronal-ceroid-lipofuscinosis (JNCL) is a lysosomal storage disease caused by mutations in CLN3. The most frequent mutation is a 1.02-kb deletion that, when homozygous, causes the classical clinical presentation. Patients harboring different mutations show a marked clinical heterogeneity, including protracted disease course with possible involvement of extraneuronal tissues. Cardiac involvement is relatively rare in JNCL and it is usually due to myocardial storage of ceroid-lipofuscinin. Only recently, histopathological findings of autophagic vacuolar myopathy (AVM) were detected in JNCL patients with severe cardiomyopathy. We describe a 35-year-old male showing a delayed-classic JNCL with visual loss in childhood and neurological manifestations only appearing in adult life. He had an unusual CLN3 genotype with an unreported deletion (p.Ala349_Leu350del) and the known p.His315Glnfs*67 mutation. Autophagic vacuolar myopathy was shown by muscle biopsy. At clinical follow-up, moderately increased CPK levels were detected whereas periodic cardiac assessments have been normal to date. Adult neurologists should be aware of protracted JNCL as cause of progressive neurological decline in adults. The occurrence of autophagic vacuolar myopathy necessitates periodic cardiac surveillance, which is not usually an issue in classic JNCL due to early neurological death.

A Novel Mutation af Cln3 Associated with Delayed-Classic Juvenile Ceroid Lipofucinois and Autophagic Vacuolar Myopathy / Licchetta, L; Bisulli, F; Fietz, M; Valentino, M L; Morbin, M; Mostacci, B; Oliver, K L; Berkovic, S F; Tinuper, P. - In: EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF MEDICAL GENETICS. - ISSN 1769-7212. - STAMPA. - 58:10(2015), pp. 540-544. [10.1016/j.ejmg.2015.09.002]

A Novel Mutation af Cln3 Associated with Delayed-Classic Juvenile Ceroid Lipofucinois and Autophagic Vacuolar Myopathy

LICCHETTA, LAURA;BISULLI, FRANCESCA;VALENTINO, MARIA LUCIA;TINUPER, PAOLO
2015

Abstract

Juvenile neuronal-ceroid-lipofuscinosis (JNCL) is a lysosomal storage disease caused by mutations in CLN3. The most frequent mutation is a 1.02-kb deletion that, when homozygous, causes the classical clinical presentation. Patients harboring different mutations show a marked clinical heterogeneity, including protracted disease course with possible involvement of extraneuronal tissues. Cardiac involvement is relatively rare in JNCL and it is usually due to myocardial storage of ceroid-lipofuscinin. Only recently, histopathological findings of autophagic vacuolar myopathy (AVM) were detected in JNCL patients with severe cardiomyopathy. We describe a 35-year-old male showing a delayed-classic JNCL with visual loss in childhood and neurological manifestations only appearing in adult life. He had an unusual CLN3 genotype with an unreported deletion (p.Ala349_Leu350del) and the known p.His315Glnfs*67 mutation. Autophagic vacuolar myopathy was shown by muscle biopsy. At clinical follow-up, moderately increased CPK levels were detected whereas periodic cardiac assessments have been normal to date. Adult neurologists should be aware of protracted JNCL as cause of progressive neurological decline in adults. The occurrence of autophagic vacuolar myopathy necessitates periodic cardiac surveillance, which is not usually an issue in classic JNCL due to early neurological death.
2015
A Novel Mutation af Cln3 Associated with Delayed-Classic Juvenile Ceroid Lipofucinois and Autophagic Vacuolar Myopathy / Licchetta, L; Bisulli, F; Fietz, M; Valentino, M L; Morbin, M; Mostacci, B; Oliver, K L; Berkovic, S F; Tinuper, P. - In: EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF MEDICAL GENETICS. - ISSN 1769-7212. - STAMPA. - 58:10(2015), pp. 540-544. [10.1016/j.ejmg.2015.09.002]
Licchetta, L; Bisulli, F; Fietz, M; Valentino, M L; Morbin, M; Mostacci, B; Oliver, K L; Berkovic, S F; Tinuper, P
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