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@ARTICLE{Pilotto:155816,
author = {Pilotto, Andrea and Zipser, Carl M and Leks, Edytha and
Haas, Dorothea and Gramer, Gwendolyn and Freisinger, Peter
and Schaeffer, Eva and Liepelt-Scarfone, Inga and Brockmann,
Kathrin and Maetzler, Walter and Schulte, Claudia and
Deuschle, Christian and Hauser, Ann Kathrin and Hoffmann,
Georg F and Scheffler, Klaus and van Spronsen, Francjan J
and Padovani, Alessandro and Trefz, Friedrich and Berg,
Daniela},
title = {{P}henylalanine {E}ffects on {B}rain {F}unction in {A}dult
{P}henylketonuria.},
journal = {Neurology},
volume = {96},
number = {3},
issn = {1526-632X},
address = {[S.l.]},
publisher = {Ovid},
reportid = {DZNE-2021-00976},
pages = {e399 - e411},
year = {2021},
abstract = {To evaluate the relationship between circulating
phenylalanine and brain function as well as neuropsychiatric
symptoms in adults with phenylketonuria.In this prospective
cross-sectional study, early-treated patients with
phenylketonuria older than 30 years and age- and sex-matched
controls were included. Extensive neurologic evaluation,
neuropsychological and behavioral testing, sensory and motor
evoked potentials, and MRI were performed. CSF
concentrations of neurodegenerative markers were evaluated
in addition in a subset of 10 patients.Nineteen patients
with phenylketonuria (median age 41 years) with different
phenylalanine levels (median 873 μmol/L) entered the study.
They showed higher prevalence of neurologic symptoms,
cognitive and behavioral abnormalities, autonomic
dysfunction, alterations in neurophysiologic measures, and
atrophy in putamen and right thalamus compared to controls.
In CSF, patients with phenylketonuria exhibited higher
β-amyloid 1-42 (p = 0.003), total tau (p < 0.001), and
phosphorylated tau (p = 0.032) levels compared to controls.
Plasma phenylalanine levels highly correlated with the
number of failed neuropsychological tests (r = 0.64, p =
0.003), neuropsychiatric symptoms (r = 0.73, p < 001), motor
evoked potential latency (r = 0.48, p = 0.030), and parietal
lobe atrophy.Our study provides strong evidence for a
correlation between phenylalanine levels and clinical,
neuropsychological, neurophysiologic, biochemical, and
imaging alterations in adult patients with phenylketonuria.},
keywords = {Adult / Atrophy: blood / Atrophy: diagnostic imaging /
Atrophy: psychology / Cognition: physiology /
Cross-Sectional Studies / Evoked Potentials, Motor:
physiology / Female / Humans / Magnetic Resonance Imaging /
Male / Neuropsychological Tests / Phenylalanine: blood /
Phenylketonurias: blood / Phenylketonurias: diagnostic
imaging / Phenylketonurias: psychology / Prospective Studies
/ Putamen: diagnostic imaging / Thalamus: diagnostic imaging
/ Phenylalanine (NLM Chemicals)},
cin = {AG Berg / AG Gasser 1 / Core ICRU / AG Maetzler /
Biobanking Facility Tübingen},
ddc = {610},
cid = {I:(DE-2719)5000055 / I:(DE-2719)1210000 /
I:(DE-2719)1240005 / I:(DE-2719)5000024 /
I:(DE-2719)1240004},
pnm = {353 - Clinical and Health Care Research (POF4-353)},
pid = {G:(DE-HGF)POF4-353},
typ = {PUB:(DE-HGF)16},
pubmed = {pmid:33093221},
doi = {10.1212/WNL.0000000000011088},
url = {https://pub.dzne.de/record/155816},
}