Increased ammonia production during forearm ischemic work test in McArdle's disease
- 1 December 1981
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Springer Nature in Journal of Molecular Medicine
- Vol. 59 (23) , 1319-1320
- https://doi.org/10.1007/bf01711182
Abstract
A patient with typical features of late onset McArdle's disease is described. During forearm ischemic work test the patient exhibited an exaggerated increase in ammonia release, largely exceeding normal values. It is suggested, that this is due to an activation of the myokinase/myoadenylate deaminase pathway. Besides lack of lactate release increased ammonia release during ischemia may be a typical feature of McArdle's disease. Es wird ein Patient mit einem typischen “late onset” McArdle-Syndrom beschrieben. Während ischämischer Arbeit fand sich bei dem Patienten ein exzessiver Anstieg des Ammoniaks im Plasma. Dies dürfte auf einer Aktivierung der Myokinase/Myoadenylat-Deaminase-Reaktionen beruhen. Neben dem charakteristischerweise fehlenden Laktatanstieg unter ischämischer Arbeit scheint eine vermehrte Ammoniak-Freisetzung für das McArdle-Syndrom typisch zu sein.This publication has 8 references indexed in Scilit:
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