Article type: Research Article

Authors: Sørensen, Cristel M.; | Ifversen, Marianne | Ek, Jakob | Uldall, Peter | Simonsen, Henrik

Affiliations: Department of Pediatrics, Copenhagen University Hospital Hvidovre, Hvidovre, Denmark | Department of Pediatrics and Adolescence Medicine, Copenhagen University Hospital, Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen, Denmark | Department of Clinical Genetics, Copenhagen University Hospital, Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen, Denmark

Note: [] Corresponding author: Cristel M. Sørensen, Department of Pediatrics, Copenhagen University Hospital Hvidovre, Kettegard Alle 30, DK-2650 Hvidovre, Denmark. Tel.: +45 35 45 68 88; Fax: +45 35 45 77 05; E-mail: [email protected]

Abstract: Glucose transporter 1 deficiency syndrome (GLUT1-DS1) is a rare and complex congenital metabolic encephalopathy characterized by infantile seizures, movement disorder, delayed development and acquired microcephaly. GLUT1-DS1 is most often caused by a de novo heterozygous mutation of the gene encoding the GLUT1 transporter, SLC2A1. We present an otherwise classical case of GLUT1-DS1 presenting at 6 wk of age with seizures. The infant had unexplained neutropenia during the months preceding molecular diagnosis. Mutational analysis of the SLC2A1 gene identified a de novo novel heterozygous deletion of 26 nucleotides between exon 5 and 6. As expected, the treatment with ketogenic diet remedied the seizures, but surprisingly it also corrected the neutropenia. We cannot rule out that this might be a phenomenon of neutropenia as an unexplained association in this single patient, but this novel observation has led us to hypothesize that in a subset of susceptible individuals with GLUT1-DS1, disturbed myelopoieses may be an accompanying phenomenon, which may be explained by deficient energy flux in hematological progenitor cells.

Keywords: GLUT1-DS1, ketogenic diet, neutropenia

DOI: 10.3233/PEP-13053

Journal: Journal of Pediatric Epilepsy, vol. 2, no. 2, pp. 137-140, 2013