Glycogen storage disease | |
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Other names | Glycogenosis; dextrinosis |
Glycogen storage disease in hepatocytes | |
Specialty | Neuromuscular medicine; hepatology; medical genetics |
Symptoms | Biopsy shows either abnormal accumulation or deficit of glycogen |
Causes | Genetic |
A glycogen storage disease (GSD, also glycogenosis and dextrinosis) is a metabolic disorder caused by a deficiency of an enzyme or transport protein affecting glycogen synthesis, glycogen breakdown, or glucose breakdown, typically in muscles and/or liver cells. [1]
GSD has two classes of cause: genetic and environmental. Genetic GSD is caused by any inborn error of carbohydrate metabolism (genetically defective enzymes or transport proteins) involved in these processes. In livestock, environmental GSD is caused by intoxication with the alkaloid castanospermine. [2]
However, not every inborn error of carbohydrate metabolism has been assigned a GSD number, even if it is known to affect the muscles or liver. For example, phosphoglycerate kinase deficiency (gene PGK1) has a myopathic form.
Also, Fanconi-Bickel syndrome (gene SLC2A2) and Danon disease (gene LAMP2) were declassed as GSDs due to being defects of transport proteins rather than enzymes; however, GSD-1 subtypes b, c, and d are due to defects of transport proteins (genes SLC37A4, SLC17A3) yet are still considered GSDs.
Phosphoglucomutase deficiency (gene PGM1) was declassed as a GSD due to it also affecting the formation of N-glycans; however, as it affects both glycogenolysis and glycosylation, it has been suggested that it should re-designated as GSD-XIV. [3]
(See inborn errors of carbohydrate metabolism for a full list of inherited diseases that affect glycogen synthesis, glycogen breakdown, or glucose breakdown.)
Type (Eponym) | Enzyme deficiency (Gene [4] ) | Incidence (births) | Hypo- glycemia? | Hepato- megaly? | Hyper- lipidemia? | Muscle symptoms | Development/ prognosis | Other symptoms |
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GSD 0 (Lewis' disease) [5] | Glycogen synthase (Muscle GYS1 / Liver GYS2) | 1 in 20,000–25,000 [6] | Liver 0a: Yes Muscle 0b: No | No | No | (Muscle 0b) Glycogen deficiency in muscle fibres. Type I muscle fibre predominance. Exercise-induced, muscle fatigue, myalgia, fainting. [7] [8] Occasional muscle cramping [ citation needed ] | (Liver 0a) Growth failure in some cases. [9] (Muscle 0b) Risk of sudden death in childhood due to cardiac arrest. [7] | (Liver 0a) Epilepsy [9] (Muscle 0b) Rarely epilepsy, tonic-clonic seizures. [7] Arrhythmia, long QT syndrome. [8] |
GSD I / GSD 1 (von Gierke's disease) | Glucose-6-phosphatase / Glucose-6-phosphate translocase (G6PC / SLC37A4 /SLC17A3) | 1 in 50,000 – 100,000 [10] [11] [12] | Yes | Yes | Yes | None | Growth failure | Lactic acidosis, hyperuricemia |
GSD II / GSD 2 (Pompe disease, formerly GSD-IIa) Danon disease (formerly GSD-IIb) | Acid alpha-glucosidase (GAA) Lysosome-associated membrane protein 2 (LAMP2) | Pompe disease is 1 in 13,000. [13] | No | Yes | No | Muscle weakness, exercise intolerance, abnormal lysosomal glycogen accumulation in muscle biopsy. Late-onset Pompe may have a pseudoathletic appearance of hypertrophic calf muscles. [14] The symptoms of both Pompe and Danon diseases are very similar due to a defect in lysosomes. However, in Danon disease, some show abnormal glycogen accumulation, but not all. [15] | Progressive proximal skeletal muscle weakness with varied timeline to threshold of functional limitation (early childhood to adulthood). Approximately 15% of the Pompe population is classified as infantile Pompe which is typically deadly within the first year if untreated. | Heart failure (infantile), respiratory difficulty (due to muscle weakness) |
GSD III / GSD 3 (Cori's disease or Forbes' disease) | Glycogen debranching enzyme (AGL Archived 2017-12-04 at the Wayback Machine ) | 1 in 100,000 | Yes | Yes | Yes | Myopathy. May have a pseudoathletic appearance of hypertrophic muscles. [16] | Failure to thrive [17] | myogenic hyperuricemia [18] |
GSD IV / GSD 4 (Andersen's disease) | Glycogen branching enzyme (GBE1) | 1 in 500,000 [19] | No | Yes, also cirrhosis | No | Myopathy and dilated cardiomyopathy | Failure to thrive, death at age ~5 years | |
GSD V / GSD 5 (McArdle's disease) | Muscle glycogen phosphorylase (PYGM) | 1 in 100,000 – 500,000 [20] [19] | No | No | No | Exercise-induced muscle fatigue and cramps. Rhabdomyolysis possible. May have a pseudoathletic appearance of hypertrophic calf muscles. [21] | Renal failure by myoglobinuria, second wind phenomenon, inappropriate rapid heart rate (sinus tachycardia) response to exercise, myogenic hyperuricemia [18] | |
GSD VI / GSD 6 (Hers' disease) | Liver glycogen phosphorylase (PYGL) | 1 in 65,000 – 85,000 [22] | Yes | Yes | Yes [23] | None | initially benign, developmental delay follows. | |
GSD VII / GSD 7 (Tarui's disease) | Muscle phosphofructokinase (PFKM) | 1 in 1,000,000 [24] | No | No | No | Exercise-induced muscle cramps and weakness | developmental delay | In some haemolytic anaemia, myogenic hyperuricemia [18] |
GSD IX / GSD 9 | Phosphorylase kinase (PHKA2 / PHKB / PHKG2 / PHKA1) | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes | IXd Exercise-induced muscle cramps, stiffness, weakness (fatigue), and pain. [25] | Liver type: Delayed motor development, Developmental delay | |
GSD X / GSD 10 | Muscle Phosphoglycerate mutase(PGAM2) | ? | ? | ? | ? | Exercise-induced muscle cramps and weakness [26] | Myoglobinuria [27] | |
GSD XI / GSD 11 | Muscle lactate dehydrogenase (LDHA) | ? | ? | ? | ? | Exercise-induced muscle cramps, stiffness, pain. [28] | ||
Fanconi-Bickel syndrome formerly GSD XI / GSD 11, no longer considered a GSD | Glucose transporter (GLUT2) | ? | Yes | Yes | No | None | ||
GSD XII / GSD 12 (Aldolase A deficiency) | Aldolase A (ALDOA) | ? | No | In some | No | Exercise intolerance, cramps. In some Rhabdomyolysis. | Hemolytic anemia and other symptoms | |
GSD XIII / GSD 13 | β-enolase (ENO3) | ? | No | ? | No | Exercise intolerance, cramps | Increasing intensity of myalgias over decades [29] | Serum CK: Episodic elevations; Reduced with rest [29] |
CDG1T (formally GSD XIV / GSD 14) | Phosphoglucomutase-1(PGM1) | ? | Episodic | ? | No | Two forms: exclusively myopathic and multi-system (including muscles). [30] Myopathy (including exercise-related fatigue, exercise intolerance, muscle weakness). Muscle biopsy shows glycogen accumulation. [31] | Short stature, some have developmental delay, and rarely delayed puberty. [31] | Highly variable phenotype and severity. Commonly elevated serum CK, abnormal serum transferrin (loss of complete N-glycans), short stature, cleft palate, bifid uvula, and hepatopathy. [31] Second Wind phenomenon in some [32] but not all [3] |
GSD XV / GSD 15 | Glycogenin-1 (GYG1) | Rare [33] | No | No | No | Muscle atrophy, exercise intolerance, muscle biopsy shows abnormal glycogen depletion and marked proliferation of slow-twitch (type 1/oxidative) muscle fibres and mitochondrial proliferation. | Slowly progressive weakness over decades | Arrhythmia, biopsy of heart showed abnormal glycogen deposits (different from polyglucosan bodies) in cardiomyocytes. [34] |
Methods to diagnose glycogen storage diseases include history and physical examination for associated symptoms, blood tests for associated metabolic disturbances, and genetic testing for suspected mutations. [16] [45] It may also include a non-ischemic forearm test, exercise stress test, or 12-minute walk test (12MWT). [45] Advancements in genetic testing are slowly diminishing the need for biopsy; however, in the event of a VUS and inconclusive exercise tests, a biopsy would then be necessary to confirm diagnosis. [45]
Glycogen storage diseases that involve skeletal muscle typically have exercise-induced (dynamic) symptoms, such as premature muscle fatigue, rather than fixed weakness (static) symptoms. [46] Differential diagnoses for glycogen storage diseases that involve fixed muscle weakness, particularly of the proximal muscles, would be an inflammatory myopathy or a limb-girdle muscular dystrophy. [46]
For those with exercise intolerance and/or proximal muscle weakness, the endocrinopathies should be considered. [47] [48] [49] The timing of the symptoms of exercise intolerance, such as muscle fatigue and cramping, is important in order to help distinguish it from other metabolic myopathies such as fatty acid metabolism disorders. [50]
Problems originating within the circulatory system, rather than the muscle itself, can produce exercise-induced muscle fatigue, pain and cramping that alleviates with rest, resulting from inadequate blood flow (ischemia) to the muscles. Ischemia that often produces symptoms in the leg muscles includes intermittent claudication, popliteal artery entrapment syndrome, and chronic venous insufficiency.
Diseases disrupting the neuromuscular junction can cause abnormal muscle fatigue, such as myasthenia gravis, an autoimmune disease. [51] Similar, are Lambert–Eaton myasthenic syndrome (autoimmune) and the congenital myasthenic syndromes (genetic).
Diseases can disrupt glycogen metabolism secondary to the primary disease. Abnormal thyroid function—hypo- and hyperthyroidism—can manifest as myopathy with symptoms of exercise-induced muscle fatigue, cramping, muscle pain and may include proximal weakness or muscle hypertrophy (particularly of the calves). [52] [48] Hypothyroidism up-regulates glycogen synthesis and down-regulates glycogenolysis and glycolysis; conversely, hyperthyroidism does the reverse, up-regulating glycogenolysis and glycolysis while down-regulating glycogen synthesis. [53] [54] [55] [48] [56]
Prolonged hypo- and hyperthyroid myopathy leads to atrophy of type II (fast-twitch/glycolytic) muscle fibres, and a predominance of type I (slow-twitch/oxidative) muscle fibres. [54] [48] [49] Muscle biopsy shows abnormal muscle glycogen: high accumulation in hypothyroidism and low accumulation in hyperthyroidism. [56] [53] [54] Hypothyroid myopathy includes Kocher-Debre-Semelaigne syndrome (childhood-onset), Hoffman syndrome (adult-onset), myasthenic syndrome, and atrophic form. [56]
In patients with increased growth hormone, muscle biopsy includes, among other features, excess glycogen deposition. [57]
EPG5-related Vici syndrome is a multisystem disorder, a congenital disorder of autophagy, with muscle biopsy showing excess glycogen accumulation, among other myopathic features. [58]
It is interesting to note, in comparison to hypothyroid myopathy, that McArdle disease (GSD-V), which is by far the most commonly diagnosed of the muscle GSDs and therefore the most studied, [59] [45] [60] has as its second highest comorbidity endocrine disease (chiefly hypothyroidism) [61] [45] and that some patients with McArdle disease also have hypertrophy of the calf muscles. [21] Late-onset Pompe disease (GSD-II) also has calf hypertrophy and hypothyroidism as comorbidities. [14] [62] [63]
Poor diet and malabsorption diseases (such as celiac disease) may lead to malnutrition of essential vitamins necessary for glycogen metabolism within the muscle cells. Malnutrition typically presents with systemic symptoms, but in rare instances can be limited to myopathy. [64] Vitamin D deficiency myopathy (also known as osteomalic myopathy due to the interplay between vitamin D and calcium) results in muscle weakness, predominantly of the proximal muscles; with muscle biopsy showing abnormal glycogen accumulation, atrophy of type II (fast-twitch/glycolytic) muscle fibres, and diminished calcium uptake by the sarcoplasmic reticulum (needed for muscle contraction). [65] [66] [67] Although Vitamin D deficiency myopathy typically includes muscle atrophy, [65] rarely calf muscle hypertrophy has been reported. [68] [69]
Exercise-induced, electrically silent, muscle cramping and stiffness (transient muscle contractures or "pseudomyotonia") are seen not only in GSD types V, VII, IXd, X, XI, XII, and XIII, but also in Brody disease, Rippling muscle disease types 1 and 2, and CAV3-related hyperCKemia (Elevated serum creatine phosphokinase). [26] Unlike the other myopathies, in Brody disease the muscle cramping is painless. [70] [71] Like GSD types II, III, and V, a pseudoathletic appearance of muscle hypertrophy is also seen in some with Brody disease and Rippling muscle disease. [70] [72] [73]
Erythrocyte lactate transporter defect (formerly Lactate transporter defect, myopathy due to) also includes exercise-induced, electrically silent, painful muscle cramping and transient contractures; as well as exercise-induced muscle fatigue. [26] [74] EMG and muscle biopsy is normal however, as the defect is not in the muscle but in the red blood cells that should clear lactate buildup from exercising muscles. [74]
Although most muscular dystrophies have fixed muscle weakness rather than exercise-induced muscle fatigue and/or cramping, there are a few exceptions. Limb–girdle muscular dystrophy autosomal recessive 23 (LGMD R23) has calf hypertrophy and exercise-induced cramping. [75] Myofibrillar myopathy 10 (MFM10) has exercise-induced muscle fatigue, cramping and stiffness, with hypertrophic neck and shoulder girdle muscles. [76] LGMD R28 has calf hypertrophy and exercise-induced muscle fatigue and pain. [77] LGMD R8 has calf pseudohypertrophy and exercise-induced weakness (fatigue) and pain. [78] LGMD R15 (a.k.a MDDGC3) has muscle hypertrophy, proximal muscle weakness, and muscle fatigue. [79]
DMD-related myopathies of Duchenne and Becker muscular dystrophy are known for fixed muscle weakness and pseudohypertrophic calf muscles, but they also have secondary muscular mitochondrial impairment causing low ATP production; as well as decreasing type II (fast-twitch/glycolytic) muscle fibres, producing a predominance of type I (slow-twitch/oxidative) muscle fibres. [80] DMD-related childhood-onset milder phenotypes present with exercise-induced muscle cramping, stiffness, pain, fatigue, and elevated CK. [81] Becker muscular dystrophy has adult-onset exercise-induced muscle cramping, pain, and elevated CK. [82]
Tubular aggregate myopathy (TAM) types 1 and 2 has exercise-induced muscle pain, fatigue, stiffness, with proximal muscle weakness and calf muscle pseudohypertrophy. TAM1 has cramping at rest, while TAM2 has cramping during exercise. [83] [84] [85] [86] Stormorken syndrome includes the symptoms of TAM, but is a more severe presentation including short stature and other abnormalities. [84] Satoyoshi syndrome has exercise-induced painful muscle cramps, muscle hypertrophy, and short stature. [87] Dimethylglycine dehydrogenase deficiency has muscle fatigue, elevated CK, and fishy body odour. [88] Myopathy with myalgia, increased serum creatine kinase, with or without episodic rhabdomyolysis (MMCKR) has exercise-induced muscle cramps, pain, and fatigue; with some exhibiting proximal muscle weakness. [89]
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Glycogenosis-like phenotype of congenital hyperinsulinism due to HNF4A mutation or MODY1 (maturity-onset diabetes of the young, type 1). This phenotype of MODY1 has macrosomia and infantile-onset hyperinsulinemic hypoglycemia, physiological 3-OH butyrate, increased triglyceride serum levels, increased level of glycogen in liver and erythrocytes, increased liver transaminases, transient hepatomegaly, renal Fanconi syndrome, and later develop liver cirrhosis, decreased succinate-dependent respiration (mitochondrial dysfunction), rickets, nephrocalcinosis, chronic kidney disease, and diabetes. [90] [91] [92]
Treatment is dependent on the type of glycogen storage disease. Von Gierke disease (GSD-I) is typically treated with frequent small meals of carbohydrates and cornstarch, called modified cornstarch therapy, to prevent low blood sugar, while other treatments may include allopurinol and human granulocyte colony stimulating factor. [93]
Cori/Forbes disease (GSD-III) treatment may use modified cornstarch therapy, a high protein diet with a preference to complex carbohydrates. However, unlike GSD-I, gluconeogenesis is functional, so simple sugars (sucrose, fructose, and lactose) are not prohibited. [16]
A ketogenic diet has demonstrated beneficial for McArdle disease (GSD-V) as ketones readily convert to acetyl CoA for oxidative phosphorylation, whereas free fatty acids take a few minutes to convert into acetyl CoA. [94] [95]
For phosphoglucomutase deficiency (formerly GSD-XIV), D-galactose supplements and exercise training has shown favourable improvement of signs and symptoms. [30] In terms of exercise training, some patients with phosphoglucomutase deficiency also experience "second wind." [30] [32]
For McArdle disease (GSD-V), regular aerobic exercise utilizing "second wind" to enable the muscles to become aerobically conditioned, as well as anaerobic exercise (strength training) that follows the activity adaptations so as not to cause muscle injury, helps to improve exercise intolerance symptoms and maintain overall health. [45] [60] [96] [97] Studies have shown that regular low-moderate aerobic exercise increases peak power output, increases peak oxygen uptake (V̇O2 peak), lowers heart rate, and lowers serum CK in individuals with McArdle disease. [96] [97]
Regardless of whether the patient experiences symptoms of muscle pain, muscle fatigue, or cramping, the phenomenon of second wind having been achieved is demonstrable by the sign of an increased heart rate dropping while maintaining the same speed on the treadmill. [97] Inactive patients experienced second wind, demonstrated through relief of typical symptoms and the sign of an increased heart rate dropping, while performing low-moderate aerobic exercise (walking or brisk walking). [97]
Conversely, patients that were regularly active did not experience the typical symptoms during low-moderate aerobic exercise (walking or brisk walking), but still demonstrated second wind by the sign of an increased heart rate dropping. [97] [98] For the regularly active patients, it took more strenuous exercise (very brisk walking/jogging or bicycling) for them to experience both the typical symptoms and relief thereof, along with the sign of an increased heart rate dropping, demonstrating second wind. [97] [98] [99]
In young children (<10 years old) with McArdle disease (GSD-V), it may be more difficult to detect the second wind phenomenon. They may show a normal heart rate, with normal or above normal peak cardio-respiratory capacity (V̇O2max). [45] [100] That said, patients with McArdle disease typically experience symptoms of exercise intolerance before the age of 10 years, [45] with the median symptomatic age of 3 years. [59] [101]
Tarui disease (GSD-VII) patients do not experience the "second wind" phenomenon; instead are said to be "out-of-wind." [45] [60] [102] However, they can achieve sub-maximal benefit from lipid metabolism of free fatty acids during aerobic activity following a warm-up. [45]
Overall, according to a study in British Columbia, approximately 2.3 children per 100,000 births (1 in 43,000) have some form of glycogen storage disease. [103] In the United States, they are estimated to occur in 1 per 20,000–25,000 births. [10] Dutch incidence rate is estimated to be 1 per 40,000 births. While a Mexican incidence showed 6.78:1000 male newborns. [12] [104]
Within the category of muscle glycogenoses (muscle GSDs), McArdle disease (GSD-V) is by far the most commonly diagnosed. [59]
Kocher–Debré–Semelaigne syndrome (KDSS) is hypothyroidism in infancy or childhood characterised by lower extremity or generalized muscular hypertrophy, myxoedema, short stature, and cognitive impairment.
Adenosine monophosphate deaminase deficiency type 1 or AMPD1, is a human metabolic disorder in which the body consistently lacks the enzyme AMP deaminase, in sufficient quantities. This may result in exercise intolerance, muscle pain and muscle cramping. The disease was formerly known as myoadenylate deaminase deficiency (MADD).
Glycogen storage disease type V, also known as McArdle's disease, is a metabolic disorder, one of the metabolic myopathies, more specifically a muscle glycogen storage disease, caused by a deficiency of myophosphorylase. Its incidence is reported as one in 100,000, roughly the same as glycogen storage disease type I.
Phosphoglucomutase is an enzyme that transfers a phosphate group on an α-D-glucose monomer from the 1 to the 6 position in the forward direction or the 6 to the 1 position in the reverse direction.
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Phosphofructokinase deficiency is a rare muscular metabolic disorder, with an autosomal recessive inheritance pattern. It is characterized as a deficiency in the Phosphofructokinase (PFK) enzyme throughout the body, including the skeletal muscles and red blood cells. Phosphofrucotkinase is an enzyme involved in the glycolytic process. The lack of PFK blocks the completion of the glycolytic pathway. Therefore, all products past the block would be deficient, including Adenosine triphosphate (ATP).
In medicine, myopathy is a disease of the muscle in which the muscle fibers do not function properly. Myopathy means muscle disease. This meaning implies that the primary defect is within the muscle, as opposed to the nerves or elsewhere.
In endurance sports such as road cycling and long-distance running, hitting the wall or the bonk is a condition of sudden fatigue and loss of energy which is caused by the depletion of glycogen stores in the liver and muscles. Milder instances can be remedied by brief rest and the ingestion of food or drinks containing carbohydrates. Otherwise, it can be remedied by attaining second wind by either resting for approximately 10 minutes or by slowing down considerably and increasing speed slowly over a period of 10 minutes. Ten minutes is approximately the time that it takes for free fatty acids to sufficiently produce ATP in response to increased demand.
Mitochondrial myopathies are types of myopathies associated with mitochondrial disease. Adenosine triphosphate (ATP), the chemical used to provide energy for the cell, cannot be produced sufficiently by oxidative phosphorylation when the mitochondrion is either damaged or missing necessary enzymes or transport proteins. With ATP production deficient in mitochondria, there is an over-reliance on anaerobic glycolysis which leads to lactic acidosis either at rest or exercise-induced.
Glycogen storage disease type III (GSD III) is an autosomal recessive metabolic disorder and inborn error of metabolism (specifically of carbohydrates) characterized by a deficiency in glycogen debranching enzymes. It is also known as Cori's disease in honor of the 1947 Nobel laureates Carl Cori and Gerty Cori. Other names include Forbes disease in honor of clinician Gilbert Burnett Forbes (1915–2003), an American physician who further described the features of the disorder, or limit dextrinosis, due to the limit dextrin-like structures in cytosol. Limit dextrin is the remaining polymer produced after hydrolysis of glycogen. Without glycogen debranching enzymes to further convert these branched glycogen polymers to glucose, limit dextrinosis abnormally accumulates in the cytoplasm.
Myophosphorylase or glycogen phosphorylase, muscle associated (PYGM) is the muscle isoform of the enzyme glycogen phosphorylase and is encoded by the PYGM gene. This enzyme helps break down glycogen into glucose-1-phosphate, so it can be used within the muscle cell. Mutations in this gene are associated with McArdle disease, a glycogen storage disease of muscle.
Second wind is a phenomenon in endurance sports, such as marathons or road running, whereby an athlete who is out of breath and too tired to continue, finds the strength to press on at top performance with less exertion. The feeling may be similar to that of a "runner's high", the most obvious difference being that the runner's high occurs after the race is over. In muscle glycogenoses, an inborn error of carbohydrate metabolism impairs either the formation or utilization of muscle glycogen. As such, those with muscle glycogenoses do not need to do prolonged exercise to experience "hitting the wall". Instead, signs of exercise intolerance, such as an inappropriate rapid heart rate response to exercise, are experienced from the beginning of an activity, and some muscle GSDs can achieve second wind within about 10 minutes from the beginning of the aerobic activity, such as walking. (See below in pathology).
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