| A rare mitochondrial disease with characteristics of failure to thrive, infantile encephalopathy, muscular hypotonia, global developmental delay and regression, pulmonary arterial hypertension, episodes of apnea and bradycardia, respiratory failure, hyperglycinemia and lactic acidosis. Hypertrophic or dilated cardiomyopathy has also been reported. Brain imaging may show leukoencephalopathy involving variable regions. The disease is typically fatal in early infancy. Caused by homozygous or compound heterozygous mutation in the NFU1 gene on chromosome 2p13. |
