Clinical polymorphism of Allgrove (triple-A) syndrome in children: Possibilities for early diagnosis and approaches to therapy

The paper gives the data available in the literature, which reflect the manifestations, diagnosis, and treatments of the rare inherited disease Allgrove syndrome in children. Emphasis is placed on major difficulties in the differential and true diagnosis of this severe disease. The authors describe their clinical cases. Particular emphasis is laid on the clinical symptoms of the disease and on its diagnostic methods, among which the DNA diagnosis is of most importance. The probands were found to have mutations in the AAAS gene: in one case there was a mutation (c.856 C> T, p.Arg286Term) in homozygous state, which is described in the International Human Mutation Database (CM 10151); in other case there was a change in nucleotide sequence (c.709 delC), which is undescribed in the mutation and polymorphism databases and which leads to premature termination of the protein. It is shown that awareness of Allgrove syndrome among clinicians is low and the interdisciplinary approach is of importance.

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