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  • 标题:Spontaneous Perforation of the Small Intestine, a Novel Manifestation of Classical Homocystinuria in an Adult with New Cystathionine b-synthetase Gene Mutations
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  • 作者:Muačević-Katanec, Diana ; Kekez, Tihomir ; Fumić, Ksenija
  • 期刊名称:Collegium Antropologicum
  • 印刷版ISSN:0350-6134
  • 出版年度:2011
  • 卷号:35
  • 期号:1
  • 页码:181-185
  • 出版社:Hrvatsko antropološko društvo
  • 摘要:The clinical picture of classical homocystinuria is diverse. This is the first report of an adult homocystinuric patient with non-traumatic spontaneous small bowel perforation. A 47-year old man presented with abdominal rebound tenderness, hypotension and tachycardia, anemia, and elevated markers of inflammation. Other routine laboratory tests were normal. Abdominal x-ray showed no free air. An emergency laparotomy revealed jejunal perforation in the left upper quadrant. Histologic specimen showed full-thickness nonspecific inflammation of the intestinal wall with granulocytic infiltration, hemorrhage and necrosis. Tuberculosis, actinomycosis and typhus were histologically and clinically excluded. After excluding all known possible causes of perforation, we presumed a causative relationship between homocystinuria and small bowel perforation. It could be hypothesized that connective tissue weakness in homocystinuria is a result of homocysteine interference with recombinant human fibrillin-1 fragments or cross-linking of collagen through permanent degradation of disulfide bridges and lysine amino acid residues in proteins. DNA analysis showed three detectable mutations in the cystathionine beta-synthetase gene, 1278T:c.833T>C, and two new mutations, V372G:c.1133T>G, and D520G:c.1558A>G in the alternatively spliced exon 15.
  • 关键词:cystathionine beta-synthetase deficiency; spontaneous small bowel perforation
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