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Low serum alkaline phosphatase activity due to asymptomatic hypophosphatasia in a teenage girl.
Clinical Biochemistry 2018 September
OBJECTIVE: The case report details an unusual presentation of a teenage patient with hypophosphatasia.
PATIENT AND METHODS: A 17 year-old female patient presented to endocrinology for the evaluation of fatigue and possible adrenal insufficiency. In the course of her clinical evaluation she was noted to have a low serum alkaline phosphatase activity. Relatively few conditions are associated with a low serum alkaline phosphatase including Wilson's disease, hypophosphatasia, pernicious anemia and untreated hypothyroidism.
RESULTS: Laboratory testing for hypothyroidism were unrevealing, as were the results for vitamin B12 and vitamin D. Testing for Wilson's disease revealed a ceruloplasmin concentration of 165 mg/L (Reference Interval, 160-450 mg/L), however sequencing of the ATP7B gene revealed no deleterious mutations. Measurement of serum pyridoxal phosphate and urine phosphoethanolamine for the diagnosis of hypophosphatasia revealed concentrations of 541.5 nmol/L (reference interval: 29.6-295.5) and 707 mmol/mol creatinine (reference interval: <778 mmol/mol creatinine), respectively, consistent with a diagnosis of hypophosphatasia.
CONCLUSIONS: Hypophosphatasia was initially considered an unlikely diagnosis for this patient given her lack of characteristic skeletal abnormalities. This diagnosis of hypophosphatasia in this case was complicated by a serum ceruloplasmin concentration at the lower end of the reference interval leading to the genetic testing for Wilson's disease.
PATIENT AND METHODS: A 17 year-old female patient presented to endocrinology for the evaluation of fatigue and possible adrenal insufficiency. In the course of her clinical evaluation she was noted to have a low serum alkaline phosphatase activity. Relatively few conditions are associated with a low serum alkaline phosphatase including Wilson's disease, hypophosphatasia, pernicious anemia and untreated hypothyroidism.
RESULTS: Laboratory testing for hypothyroidism were unrevealing, as were the results for vitamin B12 and vitamin D. Testing for Wilson's disease revealed a ceruloplasmin concentration of 165 mg/L (Reference Interval, 160-450 mg/L), however sequencing of the ATP7B gene revealed no deleterious mutations. Measurement of serum pyridoxal phosphate and urine phosphoethanolamine for the diagnosis of hypophosphatasia revealed concentrations of 541.5 nmol/L (reference interval: 29.6-295.5) and 707 mmol/mol creatinine (reference interval: <778 mmol/mol creatinine), respectively, consistent with a diagnosis of hypophosphatasia.
CONCLUSIONS: Hypophosphatasia was initially considered an unlikely diagnosis for this patient given her lack of characteristic skeletal abnormalities. This diagnosis of hypophosphatasia in this case was complicated by a serum ceruloplasmin concentration at the lower end of the reference interval leading to the genetic testing for Wilson's disease.
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