(2017) The application of clinical genetics. Maple Syrup Urine Disease (MSUD) is caused by a deficiency in the branched-chain ketoacid dehydrogenase enzyme complex that metabolizes the ketoacids of leucine, isoleucine and valine. Maple syrup urine disease: mechanisms and management. Blackburn PR, Gass JM, Vairo FPE, Farnham KM, Atwal HK, Macklin S, Klee EW, Atwal PS. Neuroimaging Findings of Organic Acidemias and Aminoacidopathies. Reddy N, Calloni SF, Vernon HJ, Boltshauser E, Huisman TAGM, Soares BP. Imaging in neonatal maple syrup urine disease. Imaging in classic form of maple syrup urine disease: a rare metabolic central nervous system. Diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance imaging in a case of severe classic maple syrup urine disease. Management involves dietary changes, such as life-long dietary intake restriction of foods with branched-chain amino acids (especially leucine), and early treatment of metabolic decompensation, with agents such as intravenous glucose 9.

MR spectroscopy: single-voxel proton MR spectroscopy may show the presence of branched-chain amino acids and branched-chain alpha-keto acids resonating at 0.9-1.0 ppm, especially during a metabolic crisis 1,2.

DWI: the posterior limbs of the internal capsules and optic radiations and the central corticospinal tracts within the cerebral hemispheres exhibit high diffusion signal.

predominantly in the cerebellar white matter, cerebral peduncles, dorsal brainstem, posterior limb of the internal capsule, thalami, globe pallidi, and perirolandic cerebral white matter 8.

vasogenic edema: usually due to disruption of the blood-brain barrier during an acute metabolic crisis or decompensation 8.intramyelinic edema: believed to be from myelin splitting due to accumulation of branched-chain key acids and water molecules between layers of myelin 8.Symptoms are evident soon after birth and may include:1 A distinctive sweet, maple syrup odor of the ear wax. Classic MSUD is the severe and most common form of the disease. MRI brain may show the characteristic pattern of edema present in MSUD. In maple syrup urine disease (MSUD), disease-causing mutations can affect the BCKDHA, BCKDHB or DBT genes encoding for the E1 alpha, E1 beta and E2 subunits of the multienzyme branched-chain 2. its subtypes: MSUD types 1A, 1B, and 2.1 What are the symptoms of maple syrup urine disease and what treatment is available MSUD can vary in age of onset and severity. There is elevated plasma concentrations of branched-chain amino acids (leucine, isoleucine, and valine), allo-isoleucine, and alpha-ketoacids. It is inherited in an autosomal recessive pattern and various different genes have been implicated 1. Maple syrup urine disease is due to mutations in any aspect of the mitochondrial branched-chain alpha-keto acid dehydrogenase complex 8. Intermittent forms of the disease may present later (5 months to 2 years of age) and can be precipitated by concomitant infection or a high protein intake 8. characteristic odor of maple syrup in the urine or cerumen.This complex is responsible for the breakdown of branched-chain amino acids: Leucine. It is a defect of metabolism due to abnormal activity of the branched-chain alpha-ketoacid dehydrogenase (BCKAD) complex. It usually manifests itself within the first week of life with 8: Maple syrup urine disease (MSUD) was first described as a rapid onset of Menkes neurodegenerative disease in 1954. Strauss KA et al (2020) Branched-chain α-ketoacid dehydrogenase deficiency (maple syrup urine disease): treatment, biomarkers, and outcomes. Orphanet (2014) Maple Syrup Urine Disease. OMIM (2018) Maple Syrup Urine Disease MSUD. Oglesbee D et al (2008) Second-tier test for quantification of alloisoleucine and branched-chain amino acids in dried blood spots to improve newborn screening for maple syrup urine disease (MSUD).

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Bhattacharya K, Khalili V, Wiley V, Carpenter K, Wilcken B (2006) Newborn screening may fail to identify intermediate forms of maple syrup urine disease.

Maple syrup urine disease type 1b