Lysinuric Protein Intolerance Inherited Nutrition and Metabolism Disorders Conditions and Diseases

LPI is an autosomally recessively inherited amino acid disorder due to defective transport of cationic amino acids lysine, arginine and ornithine in the intestine and kidney tubules. The absence or dysfunction of the transport process leads to low plasma and high urine concentration of the cationic (dibasic) amino acids. Clinical presentation of the disease usually takes place during the weaning period when breast feeding is replaced by cows milk and other high protein diets. Nausea, vomiting and mild diarrhea usually are the first symptoms followed by failure to thrive and growth retardation. Later liver and spleen become enlarged, muscles are hypotonic and osteoporosis can cause bone fractures. High protein intake can lead to hyperammonemia and even to coma, possibly accounting for the mild intellectual deficit found in few cases of LPI. Many patients have spontaneously developed aversion to protein rich food. A pulmonary complication of unknown mechanism, alveolar proteinosis has occurred in few patients during adulthood with fatal outcome.

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• Lysinuric Protein Intolerance - Wikipedia - Summarizing etiology, diagnostics, symptoms, and treatment and prognosis.
• Recurrent Stupor due to Lysinuric Protein Intolerance - Case report by Moosa, Minal, Rao Ananth, and Kumar Anand.
• Pulmonary Manifestations in Lysinuric Protein Intolerance - 1993 examination of chest radiographs by Parto et al.
• Online Inheritance in Man - Detail references describing the history of the knowledge inherited of the inherited disease.
• Lysinuric Protein Intolerance Presenting as Coma in a Middle-Aged Man - Scanned version of paper by Gare, Shalit, and nutrition and metabolism disorders Gutman.

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