Secondary muscular carnitine deficiency following immunosuppressive treatment |
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Authors: | J L?ssner H J Kühn J Lehmann J Ziegan |
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Institution: | Klinik für Neurologie, Karl-Marx-Universit?t Leipzig. |
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Abstract: | Carnitine deficiency syndromes can be classified into two groups: primary carnitine deficiency and secondary carnitine deficiency syndromes. A lipid storage myopathy with carnitine deficiency following an immunosuppressive therapy is described in a young man suffering from a possible polymyositis. After treatment with L-carnitine both biochemical and morphological features recovered. A secondary carnitine deficiency syndrome due to an immunosuppressive therapy is supposed. |
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