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JOURNAL OF INHERITED METABOLIC DISEASE
Volume 26, Issue 4, Pages 353-360Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1023/A:1025107119186
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Cardiomyopathy is common in infants with long-chain 3-hydroxyacyl-CoA dehydrogenase deficiency. Resolution of the cardiomyopathy can often be achieved by avoidance of fasting and changing from a conventional infant formula to one in which most long-chain fat is replaced by medium-chain triglycerides (MCT). It is uncertain whether the clinical improvement is due to the restriction of long-chain fat or whether the MCT have specific beneficial effects. To clarify this, themetabolic effects of MCT were examined in 5 patients. When given at around the level found in MCT-based infant formula, MCT had no effect on blood concentrations of ketone bodies, specific fatty acids or acylcarnitines. The present study cannot, however, exclude the possibility that MCT per se may have beneficial effects.
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