scholarly journals Clinical and Molecular Findings in a Moroccan Family with Primary Distal Renal Tubular Acidosis and Deafness by Mutation of ATP60A4 Gene: Case Report

Author(s):  
Nadia Mebrouk ◽  
Rachid Abilkassem ◽  
Aomar Agadr

Primary distal renal tubular acidosis (dRTA) is a rare genetic disease characterized by distal tubular dysfunction leading to metabolic acidosis and alkaline urine.  It is associated with impaired acid excretion by the intercalated cells in the renal collecting duct.  dRTA is developed during the first months of life and the main clinical and biologic features are failure to thrive, vomiting, dehydration, anorexia, hyperchloremic non-anion gap metabolic acidosis, hypocitraturia, hypercalciuria and nephrocalcinosis.  The disease is caused by defects in genes involved in urinary distal acidification: ATP6V0A4 and ATP6V1B1 for the recessive form, and SLC4A1 for the dominant form.  Some dRTA cases due to recessive gene mutations are associated with hearing impairment. We report the case of two siblings with dRTA, and early-onset SNHL, due to ATP6V0A4 mutations, and whose parents are heterozygous carriers of ATP6V0A4 mutations.

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-6
Author(s):  
Viola D’Ambrosio ◽  
Alessia Azzarà ◽  
Eugenio Sangiorgi ◽  
Fiorella Gurrieri ◽  
Bernhard Hess ◽  
...  

<b><i>Background:</i></b> Distal renal tubular acidosis (dRTA) is characterized by an impairment of urinary acidification resulting in metabolic acidosis, hypokalemia, and inappropriately elevated urine pH. If not treated, this chronic condition eventually leads to nephrocalcinosis, nephrolithiasis, impaired renal function, and bone demineralization. dRTA is a well-defined entity that can be diagnosed by genetic testing of 5 genes known to be disease-causative. Incomplete dRTA (idRTA) is defined as impaired urinary acidification that does not lead to overt metabolic acidosis and therefore can be diagnosed if patients fail to adequately acidify urine after an ammonium chloride (NH<sub>4</sub>Cl) challenge or furosemide and fludrocortisone test. It is still uncertain whether idRTA represents a distinct entity or is part of the dRTA spectrum and whether it is caused by mutations in the same genes of overt dRTA. <b><i>Methods:</i></b> In this cross-sectional study, we investigated a group of 22 stone formers whose clinical features were suspicious of idRTA. They underwent an NH<sub>4</sub>Cl challenge and were found to have impaired urinary acidification ability. These patients were then analyzed by genetic testing with sequencing of 5 genes: <i>SLC4A1</i>, <i>ATP6V1B1</i>, <i>ATP6V0A4</i>, <i>FOXI1</i>, and <i>WDR72</i>. <b><i>Results:</i></b> Two unrelated individuals were found to have two different variants in <i>SLC4A1</i> that had never been described before. <b><i>Conclusions:</i></b> Our results suggest the involvement of other genes or nongenetic tubular dysfunction in the pathogenesis of idRTA in stone formers. However, genetic testing may represent a cost-effective tool to recognize, treat, and prevent complications in these patients.


2003 ◽  
Vol 41 (1) ◽  
pp. 238-243 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hyewon Hahn ◽  
Hee Gyung Kang ◽  
Il Soo Ha ◽  
Hae Il Cheong ◽  
Yong Choi

2018 ◽  
Vol 33 (9) ◽  
pp. 1523-1529 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marta Alonso-Varela ◽  
◽  
Helena Gil-Peña ◽  
Eliecer Coto ◽  
Juan Gómez ◽  
...  

2005 ◽  
Vol 33 (5) ◽  
pp. 656-658 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Gombar ◽  
P. J. Mathew ◽  
K. K. Gombar ◽  
S. D'Cruz ◽  
G. Goyal

We report a case of hypokalaemic quadriplegia with acute respiratory failure and life-threatening cardiac arrhythmias in a 26-year-old woman who was diagnosed to have distal renal tubular acidosis. She had persistent metabolic acidosis with severe hypokalaemia and required mechanical ventilation and potassium replacement. The anaesthetic implications of renal tubular acidosis are also discussed.


CJEM ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 15 (04) ◽  
pp. 249-252 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jon Tuchscherer ◽  
Habib Rehman

ABSTRACT Toluene sniffing, frequently described under the generic category of “glue sniffing,” is a potential cause of normal anion gap metabolic acidosis due to distal renal tubular acidosis. Urine anion gap is used to diagnose metabolic acidosis of a normal anion gap variety; however, pitfalls exist when using urine anion gap in the setting of toluene sniffing. We present the case of a young woman who had a normal anion gap metabolic acidosis due to toluene sniffing and an unexpectedly low urine anion gap. In such a scenario, the urine anion gap will underestimate the rate of ammonia excretion when the conjugate bases of acids other than HCl are excreted in large quantities. Estimation of the urine osmolal gap will provide a more accurate ammonia excretion rate in these circumstances. The challenges in interpretation of the urine anion gap and ammonia excretion in the setting of distal renal tubular acidosis due to toluene toxicity are discussed.


2017 ◽  
Vol 29 (3) ◽  
pp. 1041-1048 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sven Enerbäck ◽  
Daniel Nilsson ◽  
Noel Edwards ◽  
Mikael Heglind ◽  
Sumaya Alkanderi ◽  
...  

Maintenance of the composition of inner ear fluid and regulation of electrolytes and acid-base homeostasis in the collecting duct system of the kidney require an overlapping set of membrane transport proteins regulated by the forkhead transcription factor FOXI1. In two unrelated consanguineous families, we identified three patients with novel homozygous missense mutations in FOXI1 (p.L146F and p.R213P) predicted to affect the highly conserved DNA binding domain. Patients presented with early-onset sensorineural deafness and distal renal tubular acidosis. In cultured cells, the mutations reduced the DNA binding affinity of FOXI1, which hence, failed to adequately activate genes crucial for normal inner ear function and acid-base regulation in the kidney. A substantial proportion of patients with a clinical diagnosis of inherited distal renal tubular acidosis has no identified causative mutations in currently known disease genes. Our data suggest that recessive mutations in FOXI1 can explain the disease in a subset of these patients.


1991 ◽  
Vol 1 (8) ◽  
pp. 1019-1027 ◽  
Author(s):  
E J Carlisle ◽  
S M Donnelly ◽  
S Vasuvattakul ◽  
K S Kamel ◽  
S Tobe ◽  
...  

An index case is presented to introduce the subject of the acid-base and electrolyte abnormalities resulting from toluene abuse. These include metabolic acidosis associated with a normal anion gap and excessive loss of sodium and potassium in the urine. The major question addressed is, what is the basis for the metabolic acidosis? Overproduction of hippuric acid resulting from the metabolism of toluene plays a more important role in the genesis of the metabolic acidosis than was previously believed. This conclusion is supported by the observation that the rate of excretion of ammonium was not low during metabolic acidosis in six of eight patients, suggesting that distal renal tubular acidosis was not an important acid-base abnormality in most cases where ammonium was measured. The excretion of hippurate in the urine unmatched by ammonium also mandates an enhanced rate of excretion of the cations, sodium and potassium. The loss of sodium causes extracellular fluid volume contraction and a fall in the glomerular filtration rate, which may transform the normal anion gap type of metabolic acidosis into one with a high anion gap (accumulation of hippurate and other anions). Continuing loss of potassium in the urine leads to hypokalemia. An understanding of the metabolism of toluene provides the basis for the unusual biochemical abnormalities seen with abuse of this solvent.


2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. e233350
Author(s):  
Saurav Shishir Agrawal ◽  
Chandan Kumar Mishra ◽  
Chhavi Agrawal ◽  
Partha Pratim Chakraborty

Rickets other than those associated with advanced kidney disease, isolated distal renal tubular acidosis (dRTA) and hypophosphatasia (defective tissue non-specific alkaline phosphatase) are associated with hypophosphatemia due to abnormal proximal tubular reabsorption of phosphate. dRTA, however, at times is associated with completely reversible proximal tubular dysfunction. On the other hand, severe hypophosphatemia of different aetiologies may also interfere with both distal tubular acid excretion and proximal tubular functions giving rise to transient secondary renal tubular acidosis (distal and/or proximal). Hypophosphatemia and non-anion gap metabolic acidosis thus pose a diagnostic challenge occasionally. A definitive diagnosis and an appropriate management of the primary defect results in complete reversal of the secondary abnormality. A child with vitamin D resistant rickets was thoroughly evaluated and found to have primary dRTA with secondary proximal tubular dysfunction in the form of phosphaturia and low molecular weight proteinuria. The child was treated only with oral potassium citrate. A complete clinical, biochemical and radiological improvement was noticed in follow-up.


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