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  • Title: Prepubertal diagnosis of steroid 5 alpha-reductase deficiency.
    Author: Saenger P, Goldman AS, Levine LS, Korth-Schutz S, Muecke EC, Katsumata M, Doberne Y, New MI.
    Journal: J Clin Endocrinol Metab; 1978 Apr; 46(4):627-34. PubMed ID: 755047.
    Abstract:
    The diagnosis of 5 alpha-reductase deficiency was proven in two prepubertal patients with male pseudohermaphroditism (MPH). Both had a 46-XY karyotype and were reared as females; one child had been castrated in infancy. Clitoromegaly, urogenital sinus, and short vaginal pouch were present in both; inguinal gonads were palpable in one. The diagnosis was made biochemically by observing characteristic changes in five parameters: 1) abnormally high testosterone to dihydrotestosterone (T:DHT) ratio after hCG stimulation (35 and 53 vs. normal, 11 +/- 3), 2) abnormally high 5 beta-T metabolites in urine (8.1 and 6.0 vs. normal, less than 1),3) deficient conversion of T to DHT during [3H] T infusion (0.3 and 0.4% vs. normal, 5.3 +/- 3), 4) deficient conversion of [14 C] T to 5 alpha-reduced metabolites by nongenital skin fibroblasts (2.2 and 1.9 pmol/microgram DNA/nmol substrate vs. 68.4+/- 7.8 Pmol/microgram DNA/nmol substrate in normal controls), and 5) deficient conversion of [14C]T to DHT in genital skin slices. The fact that this syndrome represents a defect in T metabolism rather in in T binding is demonstrated by the observation that binding of [3H]DHT to cytosol of skin fibroblasts was normal (4.2 dpm/micrograms DNA vs. normal male values of 3.7 +/- 0.64). Thus, the present report suggests that 5 alpha-reductase deficiency can be diagnosed during childhood and even after castration by metabolic studies of nongenital skin fibroblasts and determination of the conversion ratio of [3H]T to [3H]DHT in plasma.
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