Adult-onset carnitine palmitoyl transferase II (CPT II) deficiency presenting with rhabdomyolysis and acute kidney injury. 2024

Halil Tuna Akar, and Yılmaz Yıldız, and Rüya Mutluay, and Emel Tekin, and Ayşegül Tokatlı
Department of Pediatrics, Pediatric Metabolism Unit, Hacettepe University Faculty of Medicine, Ankara, Turkey. halil.tuna.akar@hacettepe.edu.tr.

Metabolic myopathies are among the treatable causes of rhabdomyolysis and myoglobinuria. Carnitine palmitoyl transferase 2 (CPT II) deficiency is one of the most common causes of recurrent myoglobinuria in adults. It is an inherited disorder of fatty acid oxidation pathway, commonly associated with elevated acylcarnitine levels. In this case report, we present a 49-year-old male patient who developed acute kidney injury after rhabdomyolysis and was thus diagnosed with CPT2 deficiency after his first episode of rhabdomyolysis. Inborn errors of metabolism should be kept in mind in patients with rhabdomyolysis. Acylcarnitine profile may be normal in CPT II deficiency, even during an acute attack, and molecular genetic diagnostics should be applied if there is high index of clinical suspicion.

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