[Secondary muscular carnitine deficiency following immunosuppressive treatment]

Autor: J, Lössner, H J, Kühn, J, Lehmann, J, Ziegan
Jazyk: němčina
Rok vydání: 1989
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Zdroj: Psychiatrie, Neurologie, und medizinische Psychologie. 41(10)
ISSN: 0033-2739
Popis: 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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