1例智利男孩发生严重的光过敏和手指缩短:南美洲首例纯合子杂色斑驳卟啉症  

A Chilean boy with severe photosensitivity and finger shortening: The first case of homozygous variegate porphyria in South America

作　　者：Poblete-Gutiérrez P. Wolff C. Farias R. Frank J. 罗素菊 

机构地区：[1]Department of Dermatology,University Hospital Maastricht, PO Box 5800, 6202 AZ Maastricht, Netherlands

出　　处：《世界核心医学期刊文摘（皮肤病学分册）》2006年第6期34-35,共2页Digest of the World Core Medical JOurnals:Dermatology

摘　　要：A 7-year-old Chilean boy presented with severe photosensitivity, blistering, erosions and scarring on sun-exposed areas of the body since the age of 6 months. Additionally, he showed a short stature and shortening of the fingers. Laboratory examination revealed greatly elevated protoporphyrin levels in the blood. Such biochemical findings can be observed in homozygous variants of usually autosomal dominantly inherited acute porphyrias such as variegate porphyria (VP) and hereditary coproporphyria, which usually do not become manifest before the second or third decade of life in heterozygotes. Using polymerase chain reaction-based techniques we identified a missense mutation in exon 7 on the paternal allele and a frameshift mutation in exon 13 on the maternal allele of the protoporphyrinogen oxidase gene that harbours the mutations underlying VP. This is the first homozygous case of VP in South America. As VP represents the most frequent type of acute porphyria not only in Chile but also in South Africa, more such cases could be expected in the future, particularly because a founder mutation for this disease has already been described in the Chilean and South African population.A 7-year-old Chilean boy presented with severe photosensitivity, blistering, erosions and scarring on sun-exposed areas of the body since the age of 6 months. Additionally, he showed a short stature and shortening of the fingers. Laboratory examination revealed greatly elevated protoporphyrin levels in the blood. Such biochemical findings can be observed in homozygous variants of usually autosomal dominantly inherited acute porphyrias such as variegate porphyria （VP） and hereditary coproporphyria, which usually do not become manifest before the second or third decade of life in heterozygotes. Using polymerase chain reaction-based techniques we identified a missense mutation in exon 7 on the paternal allele and a frameshift mu- tation in exon 13 on the maternal allele of the protoporphyrinogen oxidase gene that harbours the mutations underlying VP. This is the first homozygous case of VP in South America. As VP represents the most frequent type of acute porphyria not only in Chile but also in South Africa, more such cases could be expected in the future, particularly because a founder mutation for this disease has already been described in the Chilean and South African population.

关 键 词：急性卟啉症 纯合子 南美洲 光过敏 智利 常染色体显性遗传性 色斑 首例 缩短 手指 

分 类 号：R589.8[医药卫生—内分泌] R556.71[医药卫生—内科学]