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  • Title: Pyruvate dehydrogenase complex deficiency as a cause of subacute necrotizing encephalopathy (Leigh disease).
    Author: Kretzschmar HA, DeArmond SJ, Koch TK, Patel MS, Newth CJ, Schmidt KA, Packman S.
    Journal: Pediatrics; 1987 Mar; 79(3):370-3. PubMed ID: 3103091.
    Abstract:
    Leigh disease is a disorder with great clinical variability and for which diverse biochemical causes have been proposed. Clarification requires rigorous correlation of biochemical abnormalities with strict morphologic diagnosis; such an unambiguous association is the subject of this report. A patient with well-documented clinical and biochemical pyruvate dehydrogenase complex deficiency is shown on postmortem examination to have the specific CNS pathology of Leigh disease. These findings, considered together with the aggregate data in the literature, suggest strongly that pyruvate dehydrogenase complex deficiency is the basic defect in a subgroup of patients with Leigh disease.
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