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Disorders of Fatty Acid Oxidation

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Inborn Metabolic Diseases

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A dozen genetic defects in the fatty acid-oxidation pathway are currently known. Nearly all of these defects present in early infancy as acute, life-threatening episodes of hypoketotic, hypoglycemic coma induced by fasting [1–3]. In some of the disorders, there may also be chronic skeletal-muscle weakness or acute exercise-induced rhabdomyolysis and acute or chronic cardiomyopathy. Recognition of the fatty acid-oxidation disorders is often difficult, because patients can appear well until they undergo prolonged fasting.

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    John Fernandes (Professor Emeritus of Pediatrics) (Professor Emeritus of Pediatrics)

  2. Hospital Necker-Enfants Malades, 149 Rue de Sevres, 75743, Paris Cedex 15, France

    Jean-Marie Saudubray

  3. Institute of Cellular Pathology, Université Catholique de Louvain, Avenue Hippocrate 75, 1200, Brussels, Belgium

    Georges Van den Berghe (Christian de Duve) (Christian de Duve)

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Stanley, C.A. (2000). Disorders of Fatty Acid Oxidation. In: Fernandes, J., Saudubray, JM., Van den Berghe, G. (eds) Inborn Metabolic Diseases. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-04285-4_11

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