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  • Title: [Polysaccharide amylopectin-type storage myopathy].
    Author: Calore EE, Pellissier JF, Figarella-Branger D, de Barsy T, Pouget J, Serratrice G.
    Journal: Rev Neurol (Paris); 1992; 148(11):696-703. PubMed ID: 1303560.
    Abstract:
    We report a late onset form of polysaccharide myopathy with progressive limb girdle muscles weakness, without cardiomyopathy. Muscle biopsy showed a vacuolar myopathy in type 1 fibres. The PAS positive diastase resistant deposits were made of filamentous material at electron microscopy similar to long chain glycogen. Muscle glycogen levels and glycogen metabolism enzymes were normal. Numerous abnormal mitochondrial with paracrystalline inclusions were observed around the storage material. Twelve patients with polysaccharide amylopectin-like storage myopathy have previously been reported. This disease must be distinguished from other diseases with polysaccharide accumulation such as branching enzyme deficiency and some cases of phosphofructokinase deficiency. In other disorders, no deficient enzymes in the glycogen pathway was found. Some of them show systemic storage (Lafora disease, adult polyglucosan body disease). Corpora amylacea, Bielchowsky bodies and basophilic degeneration of the myocardium represent localised depositions. A few inclusions can also be observed in hypothyroid myopathy. In polysaccharide myopathy allosteric inactivation of phosphofructokinase by a mitochondrial dysfunction is considered by analogy with cases of polysaccharide storage related to phosphofructokinase deficiency.
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