Multiple neuroendocrine disorder in Salla disease. 2001

S Grosso, and R Berardi, and M A Farnetani, and M Margollicci, and M G Mancini, and G Morgese, and P Balestri
Department of Pediatrics, University of Siena, Italy.

Salla disease represents the slowly progressive adult form of the sialic acid storage diseases, a group of autosomal-recessive neurodegenerative disorders in which psychomotor development, ataxia, axial hypotonia, and spasticity in the lower limbs occur. No skeletal dysostosis or organomegaly is present, and life expectancy is normal. Short stature can also be observed. Progressive cerebral and cerebellar atrophy associated with dysmyelination and corpus callosum hypoplasia have been shown by magnetic resonance imaging studies. We report the first patient with Salla disease in whom combined growth hormone and gonadotropin deficiencies, hypothalamic pituitary in origin, have been demonstrated by neuroendocrine studies. We believe that the multiple neuroendocrine disorder may be the consequence of the abnormalities of common neuronal pathways regulating growth hormone and gonadotropin synthesis or secretion related to the brain storage of free sialic acid and/or to the neurodegenerative process occurring in Salla disease. Therefore, a complete endocrinologic evaluation of these patients is both warranted and useful.

UI MeSH Term Description Entries
D008297 Male Males
D010901 Pituitary Function Tests Examinations that evaluate functions of the pituitary gland. Pituitary Gland Function Tests,Function Test, Pituitary,Function Tests, Pituitary,Pituitary Function Test,Test, Pituitary Function,Tests, Pituitary Function
D002648 Child A person 6 to 12 years of age. An individual 2 to 5 years old is CHILD, PRESCHOOL. Children
D002675 Child, Preschool A child between the ages of 2 and 5. Children, Preschool,Preschool Child,Preschool Children
D005500 Follow-Up Studies Studies in which individuals or populations are followed to assess the outcome of exposures, procedures, or effects of a characteristic, e.g., occurrence of disease. Followup Studies,Follow Up Studies,Follow-Up Study,Followup Study,Studies, Follow-Up,Studies, Followup,Study, Follow-Up,Study, Followup
D006065 Gonadotropins, Pituitary Hormones secreted by the adenohypophysis (PITUITARY GLAND, ANTERIOR) that stimulate gonadal functions in both males and females. They include FOLLICLE STIMULATING HORMONE that stimulates germ cell maturation (OOGENESIS; SPERMATOGENESIS), and LUTEINIZING HORMONE that stimulates the production of sex steroids (ESTROGENS; PROGESTERONE; ANDROGENS). Pituitary Gonadotropins
D006801 Humans Members of the species Homo sapiens. Homo sapiens,Man (Taxonomy),Human,Man, Modern,Modern Man
D000293 Adolescent A person 13 to 18 years of age. Adolescence,Youth,Adolescents,Adolescents, Female,Adolescents, Male,Teenagers,Teens,Adolescent, Female,Adolescent, Male,Female Adolescent,Female Adolescents,Male Adolescent,Male Adolescents,Teen,Teenager,Youths
D000328 Adult A person having attained full growth or maturity. Adults are of 19 through 44 years of age. For a person between 19 and 24 years of age, YOUNG ADULT is available. Adults
D019382 Human Growth Hormone A 191-amino acid polypeptide hormone secreted by the human adenohypophysis (PITUITARY GLAND, ANTERIOR), also known as GH or somatotropin. Synthetic growth hormone, termed somatropin, has replaced the natural form in therapeutic usage such as treatment of dwarfism in children with growth hormone deficiency. Somatotropin (Human),Somatropin (Human),Cryo-Tropin,Genotonorm,Genotropin,Humatrope,Maxomat,Norditropin,Norditropin Simplexx,Norditropine,Nutropin,Omnitrope,Recombinant Human Growth Hormone (Mammalian),Saizen,Serostim,Somatropin,Umatrope,Zomacton,hGH (Human Growth Hormone),r-hGH(m),r-hGH-M,Cryo Tropin,CryoTropin,Growth Hormone, Human

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