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Congenital Disorders of Glycosylation: Diagnostic steps - ERNDIM

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When to perform transferrin is<strong>of</strong>ocusing?<br />

• All patients with a suspicion <strong>of</strong> a metabolic disorder<br />

• Reason:<br />

• CDG: wide spectrum, mild isolated to severe<br />

multisystem<br />

• CDG-Ib/h, fructosemia<br />

• CDG-Ix with isolated myopathy, optic nerve<br />

atrophy, DCM, ichthyosis<br />

• New phenotypes in CDG-II: adducted<br />

thumbs/microcephaly; cutis laxa; complex<br />

vertebral malformations<br />

• CDG-II with liver pathology as main feature

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