321 results match your criteria: "Glycogen Storage Disease Type Ib"

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  • Liver transplantation (LT) for children with glycogen storage disease type 1b can reduce infection-related hospital visits but does not improve neutropenia or the need for granulocyte colony-stimulating factor (G-CSF) post-transplant.
  • In a study of eight children, most showed signs of graft rejection despite adequate immunosuppression, and while body mass index (BMI) significantly decreased, height remained unchanged after LT.
  • The use of dapagliflozin helped stop G-CSF administration and led to lower gastrointestinal and infection-related issues, but did not enhance neutrophil counts.
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  • - Glycogen storage disease type 1b (GSD-1b) leads to neutropenia and dysfunction in neutrophils due to the buildup of a harmful metabolite.
  • - A case series involving three pediatric patients treated with empagliflozin showed significant improvements in symptoms like infections, abdominal pain, and anemia, while also stabilizing neutrophil counts.
  • - Over three years, empagliflozin not only provided clinical benefits, including better overall health and reduced inflammation, but also allowed the cessation of G-CSF treatment in all patients.
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Gut Dysbiosis Drives Inflammatory Bowel Disease Through the CCL4L2-VSIR Axis in Glycogen Storage Disease.

Adv Sci (Weinh)

August 2024

Department of Pediatrics, Guangdong Provincial People's Hospital, Guangdong Academy of Medical Sciences, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, 510080, China.

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  • * This study identifies distinct digestive symptoms in GSD-Ib patients, including deep ulcers and strictures, and reveals that their gut microbiota and immune responses differ from typical IBD cases.
  • * The research highlights a specific pathway (CCL4L2-VSIR axis) that could be targeted for therapy, aiming to improve gut health and manage IBD in GSD-Ib patients.
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Empagliflozin for treating neutropenia and neutrophil dysfunction in 21 infants with glycogen storage disease 1b.

Mol Genet Metab

June 2024

University Children's Hospital Salzburg, Salzburger Landeskliniken und Paracelsus Medical University, Salzburg, Austria; Amalia Children's Hospital, Radboudumc, Nijmegen, the Netherlands. Electronic address:

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  • Sodium-glucose cotransporter type 2 inhibitors, specifically dapagliflozin and empagliflozin, have changed the game for treating adults with type 2 diabetes, heart failure, and chronic kidney disease, but their use in children is less established.* -
  • A systematic review of clinical data involving 415 children showed that these medications were used in various conditions, including type 2 diabetes, kidney diseases, and other metabolic disorders, highlighting the potential for efficacy and safety.* -
  • In two randomized trials focused on type 2 diabetes in adolescents, results indicated a notable reduction in glycosylated hemoglobin (HbA1c) levels, suggesting that dapagliflozin and empag
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Clinical spectrum, over 12-year follow-up and experience of SGLT2 inhibitors treatment on patients with glycogen storage disease type Ib: a single-center retrospective study.

Orphanet J Rare Dis

April 2024

Department of Pediatric Endocrinology and Genetic Metabolism, Guangzhou Women and Children's Medical Center, Guangzhou Medical University, 510623, Guangzhou, China.

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  • Glycogen storage disease type Ib (GSD Ib) is a rare genetic condition that leads to severe health issues like low blood sugar and neutropenia due to mutations in the SLC37A4 gene, making traditional treatments ineffective for neutropenia.
  • Recent findings on the condition allowed for the use of the SGLT2 inhibitor empagliflozin, which has shown promise in improving neutrophil function and overall health in GSD Ib patients since its introduction in 2020.
  • A study of 35 pediatric GSD Ib patients revealed that empagliflozin treatment is effective and safe in managing the disease, although patients should be monitored for urinary infections and hypoglycemia as potential side effects.
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  • Neutropenia and neutrophil dysfunction in glycogen storage disease type 1b (GSD1b) result from the buildup of a specific compound, and the drug empagliflozin has shown potential to reverse these effects by lowering this compound's levels.
  • A study involving 7 GSD1b patients and 11 healthy donors tested the effectiveness of empagliflozin against the standard treatment, granulocyte-colony stimulating factor (G-CSF), over 3 and 12 months.
  • Results indicated that empagliflozin significantly improved neutrophil counts and their functionalities, leading to better immune responses and fewer severe infections, while G-CSF provided limited benefits, allowing for its reduction or
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Glycogen Storage Disease: Expert Opinion on Clinical Diagnosis Revisited after Molecular Testing.

Genes (Basel)

December 2023

Genética Médica e Medicina Genômica, Departamento de Medicina Translacional, Faculdade de Ciências Médicas, Universidade Estadual de Campinas (Unicamp), Campinas 13083-970, SP, Brazil.

This study sought to analyze whether an accurate diagnosis of the type and subtype of hepatic Glycogen Storage Diseases (GSDs) could be performed based on general clinical and biochemical aspects via comparing the proposed diagnostic hypotheses with the molecular results. Twelve physicians with experience in hepatic GSDs reviewed 45 real cases comprising a standardized summary of clinical and laboratory data. There was no relation between the hit rate and the time since graduation, the time of experience in GSD, and the number of patients treated during their careers.

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Objective: Carbohydrate Response Element Binding Protein (ChREBP) is a glucose 6-phosphate (G6P)-sensitive transcription factor that acts as a metabolic switch to maintain intracellular glucose and phosphate homeostasis. Hepatic ChREBP is well-known for its regulatory role in glycolysis, the pentose phosphate pathway, and de novo lipogenesis. The physiological role of ChREBP in hepatic glycogen metabolism and blood glucose regulation has not been assessed in detail, and ChREBP's contribution to carbohydrate flux adaptations in hepatic Glycogen Storage Disease type 1 (GSD I) requires further investigation.

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Rapid ultra-performance liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry method for the simultaneous determination of three characteristic urinary saccharide metabolites in patients with glycogen storage diseases (type Ⅰb and Ⅱ).

J Chromatogr B Analyt Technol Biomed Life Sci

September 2023

Clinical Pharmacology Research Center, Peking Union Medical College Hospital, State Key Laboratory of Complex Severe and Rare Diseases, NMPA Key Laboratory for Clinical Research and Evaluation of Drug, Beijing Key Laboratory of Clinical PK & PD Investigation for Innovative Drugs, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College, Beijing 100730, China. Electronic address:

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  • * The method involved diluting urine samples and analyzing them with a specialized chromatography system, yielding linear calibration curves and minimal errors, confirming its accuracy and reliability for rapid analysis.
  • * Significantly, this research is the first to validate an assay for quantifying maltotetraose in urine, suggesting its potential as a biomarker for Pompe
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Objectives: Glycogen storage disease (GSD) type 1b is a multisystemic disease in which immune and infectious complications are present, different from GSD type 1a. Treatment with granulocyte-colony stimulating factor (G-CSF) is often required in the management of neutropenia and inflammatory bowel disease. Recently, an alternative treatment option to G-CSF has been preferred, like empagliflozin.

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Glycogen storage disease type Ib (GSD Ib) is a rare hereditary glycogen disorder that results in inadequate maintenance of glucose homeostasis, accumulation of glycogen in different organs, loss and dysfunction of neutrophils. Crohn's-like disease is observed in up to 24-77% of GDS Ib cases. Recently, empagliflozin has been recommended as a treatment for neutrophil dysfunction in GDS Ib patients with or without Crohn's-like disease.

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Aberrant glucose metabolism underlies impaired macrophage differentiation in glycogen storage disease type Ib.

FASEB J

November 2023

Department of Biotechnology and Bioinformatics, College of Science and Technology, Korea University, Sejong, Republic of Korea.

Glycogen storage disease type Ib (GSD-Ib) is an autosomal recessive disorder caused by a deficiency in the glucose-6-phosphate (G6P) transporter (G6PT) that is responsible for transporting G6P into the endoplasmic reticulum. GSD-Ib is characterized by disturbances in glucose homeostasis, neutropenia, and neutrophil dysfunction. Although some studies have explored neutrophils abnormalities in GSD-Ib, investigations regarding monocytes/macrophages remain limited so far.

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Development of a rapid simultaneous assay of two urinary tetrasaccharide metabolites using differential ion mobility and tandem mass spectrometry and its application to patients with glycogen storage disease (type Ib and II).

Anal Bioanal Chem

November 2023

Clinical Pharmacology Research Center, Peking Union Medical College Hospital, State Key Laboratory of Complex Severe and Rare Diseases, NMPA Key Laboratory for Clinical Research and Evaluation of Drug, Beijing Key Laboratory of Clinical PK & PD Investigation for Innovative Drugs, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, 100730, China.

Glucose tetrasaccharide (Glc) and maltotetraose (M) are important biomarkers for Pompe disease and other glycogen storage diseases (GSDs). With the development of new treatments for GSDs, more specific and sensitive bioanalytical methods are needed to determine biomarkers. In recent years, differential mobility spectrometry (DMS) has become an effective analytical technique with high selectivity and specificity.

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Glycogen storage diseases.

Nat Rev Dis Primers

September 2023

Copenhagen Neuromuscular Center, Copenhagen University Hospital, Copenhagen, Denmark.

Glycogen storage diseases (GSDs) are a group of rare, monogenic disorders that share a defect in the synthesis or breakdown of glycogen. This Primer describes the multi-organ clinical features of hepatic GSDs and muscle GSDs, in addition to their epidemiology, biochemistry and mechanisms of disease, diagnosis, management, quality of life and future research directions. Some GSDs have available guidelines for diagnosis and management.

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A young woman, known to have glycogen storage disease type 1B (GSD1B) presents with severe periodontitis. GDS1B causes decreased hepatic and renal glucose production and in many cases neutropenia and neutrophil dysfunction leading to recurrent infections. It was decided to treat the patient by extraction of the most affected teeth and retention of the remaining teeth through periodontal treatment, both with antibiotic prophylaxis.

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Neutropenia and neutrophil dysfunction in glycogen storage disease type 1b (GSD1b) and severe congenital neutropenia type 4 (SCN4), associated with deficiencies of the glucose-6-phosphate transporter (G6PT/SLC37A4) and the phosphatase G6PC3, respectively, are the result of the accumulation of 1,5-anhydroglucitol-6-phosphate in neutrophils. This is an inhibitor of hexokinase made from 1,5-anhydroglucitol (1,5-AG), an abundant polyol in blood. 1,5-AG is presumed to be reabsorbed in the kidney by a sodium-dependent-transporter of uncertain identity, possibly SGLT4/SLC5A9 or SGLT5/SLC5A10.

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[Short-term efficacy of empagliflozin in children with glycogen storage disease type Ⅰb].

Zhonghua Er Ke Za Zhi

June 2023

Department of Pediatrics, Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Peking Union Medical College, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Beijing 100730, China.

To analyze the short-time efficacy of empagliflozin in the treatment of glycogen storage disease type Ⅰb (GSD Ⅰb). In this prospective open-label single-arm study, the data of 4 patients were collected from the pediatric department in Peking Union Medical College Hospital from December 2020 to December 2022. All of them were diagnosed by gene sequencing and had neutropenia.

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