Physician's Guide to the Diagnosis, Treatment, and Follow-Up of Inherited Metabolic Diseases

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Nenad Blau is a senior consultant in biochemical genetics at the Division of Metabolism, University Children's Hospital in Zürich (UZH), Switzerland. Previously he was the head of the Laboratory for Tetrahydrobiopterin and Neurotransmitter Diseases at the University Children's Hospital in Zurich and for the last 8 years as a senior consultant in biochemical genetics at the University Children's Hospital in Heidelberg, Germany. His research group discovered several inborn errors of metabolism, including GTP cyclohydrolase deficiency, pterin-carbinolamine dehydratase deficiency, and sepiapterin reductase deficiency. He established and curates the PAH locus-specific database, database of PKU genotypes and phenotypes, and database of BH4 deficiencies. With colleagues from Vancouver he developed the online knowledgebase of inborn errors of metabolism, IEMbase. He is author of more than 400 research publications, including the standard books Physician's Guide to the Laboratory Diagnosis, Treatment and Follow-up of Inherited Metabolic Disease, and Laboratory Guide to the Methods in Biochemical Genetics. Professor Blau is an honorary member of the Italian Society for Pediatrics. For his research in the field of tetrahydrobiopterin and phenylketonuria he received the Horst-Bickel Award in 2001, the Gowland Hopkins Award in 2005, and he received the Asbjørn Følling award in 2011.

Carlo Dionisi-Vici obtained his residency in Paediatrics at "La Sapienza" University, Rome, Italy. He is the head of the Division of Metabolic Diseases and of the Research Unit for Metabolic Diseases at the Bambino Gesù Children's Research Hospital, Rome. Dr Dionisi-Vici is the past-president of the Italian Society for the Study of Inborn Errors of Metabolism (SIMMESN), and was a council member of the Society for the Study of Inborn Errors of Metabolism (SSIEM) from 2010 to 2016.  His clinical work and research focus on the field of inborn errors of metabolism, including defects of intermediary metabolism, subcellular organelle disorders and inherited defects of intracellular vesicular trafficking. With his research group, he participated in the discovery of new inborn errors of metabolism, including ethylmalonic encephalopathy, MEDNIK syndrome, and Vici syndrome. He is the author of more than 250 peer-reviewed publications. Within the MetabERN consortium he is responsible for the work-package guidelines and for the sub-network carbohydrate and fatty acid oxidation disorders.     

Carlos R. Ferreira is board-certified in Internal Medicine, Medical Genetics, and Clinical Biochemical Genetics, and specializes in genetic disorders of bone development and inborn errors of metabolism. He led a team of researchers that elucidated the molecular defect underlying Saul-Wilson syndrome, a rare disorder of vesicular trafficking leading to skeletal dysplasia. He contributed to the finding of disturbed tryptophan catabolism as a new etiology of Catel-Manzke syndrome (another rare constitutional disorder of bone development), and to finding the cause of a rare hematologic disorder, combined alpha-delta platelet storage pool deficiency. He was part of several collaborations that led to the discovery of novel genetic disorders, including a primary CoQ10 biosynthetic defect (COQ5 deficiency), a genetic form of renal Fanconi syndrome due to GATM aggregates, a rare neuromuscular defect (Carey-Fineman-Ziter syndrome), a novel neurodegenerative condition (TRAK1 deficiency), and a skeletal dysplasia in the dysosteosclerosis-Pyle disease spectrum. Dr. Ferreira participates as faculty in the annual North American Metabolic Academy (NAMA) course. He has authored more than 90 indexed publications, one of which recently received the Emmanuel Shapira Award (bestowed to the best paper published in Molecular Genetics and Metabolism).

Christine Vianey-Saban is the former Head of the Department

Part 1. GENERAL SUBJECTS AND PROFILES.- 1. Newborn Screening for Inborn Errors of Metabolism.- 2. Simple Tests and Routine Chemistry.- 3. Amino Acids.- 4. Organic Acids.- 5 .Acylcarnitines.- 6. Lysosomals.- 7. Untargeted Metabolomics - Next Generation Metabolic Screening.- 8. MRI and In Vivo Spectroscopy of the Brain.- 9. Genomic Approaches for the Diagnosis of Inborn Errors of Metabolism.- 10. Other-omics Approaches and Their Integration for the Diagnosis and Treatment of Inborn Errors of Metabolism.- 11. Emergency Diagnostic Procedures and Emergency Treatment.- 12. Nosology of Inborn Errors of Metabolism.- Part 2. DISORDERS OF NITROGEN-CONTAINING COMPOUNDS.- 13. Purine and Pyrimidine Disorders.- 14. Disorders of nucleotide metabolism.- 15. Disorders of Creatine Metabolism.- 16. Disorder of Glutathione Metabolism.- 17. Disorders of Ammonia Detoxification.- 18. Amino Acid Transport Defects.- 19. Disorders of Monoamine Metabolism.- 20. Disorders of Phenylalanine and Tetrahydrobiopterin Metabolism.- 21. Disorders of Tyrosine Metabolism.- 22. Disorders of Sulfur Amino Acid and Hydrogen Sulfide Metabolism.- 23. Disorders of Branched-Chain Amino Acid Metabolism.- 24. Disorders of Beta and Gamma Amino Acids.- 25. Amino Acid Synthesis Deficiencies.- 26. Disorders of Glycine Metabolism.- 27. Disorders of Lipoic Acid and Iron-Sulfur Protein Metabolism.- Part 3. DISORDERS OF VITAMINS, COFACTORS, METALS AND MINERALS.- 28. Disorders of Cobalamin Metabolism.- 29. Disorders of Folate Metabolism and Transport.- 30. Disorders of Biotin Metabolism.- 31. Thiamine Disorders.- 32. Disorders of Riboflavin Metabolism.- 33. Disorders of Niacin, NAD and Panthotenate Metabolism.- 34. Vitamin B6-Dependent and Responsive Disorders.- 35. Molybdenum Cofactor Disorders.- 36. Disorders of Copper, Zinc and Selenium Metabolism.- 37. Disorders of Iron Metabolism.- 38. Disorders of Manganese Metabolism.- Part 4. DISORDERS OF CARBOHYDRATES.- 39. Disorders of Carbohydrate Absorption, Transmembrane Transport and Metabolism.- 40. Disorders of the Pentose Phosphate Pathway and Polyol Metabolism.-  41. Hyperinsulinism.- Part 5. MITOCHONDRIAL DISORDERS OF ENERGY METABOLISM.- 42. Disorders of the Pyruvate Metabolism and the Krebs Cycle.- 43. Disorders of Mitochondrial Carriers.- 44. Isolated Mitochondrial Complex Deficiencies.- 45. Disorders of Replication, Transcription and Translation of Mitochondrial DNA.- 46. Disorders of mitochondrial homeostasis, dynamics, protein import and quality control.- 47. Primary Coenzyme Q10 Deficiencies.- Part 6. DISORDERS OF LIPIDS.- 48. Mitochondrial Fatty Acid Oxidation Disorders.- 49. Disorders of Glycerol Metabolism.- 50. Disorders of Ketone Body Metabolism and Transport.- 51. Disorders of Complex Lipids.- 52. Disorders of Eicosanoid Metabolism.- 53. Disorders of Lipoprotein Metabolism.- 54. Disorders of Cholesterol Biosynthesis.- 55. Disorders of Adrenals and Gonads.- 56. Disorders of Bile Acid Synthesis. Part 7. DISORDERS OF TETRAPYRROLES.-57. Disorders of Heme Metabolism.- 58. Inherited Disorders of Bilirubin Metabolism.- Part 8. STORAGE DISORDERS.- 59. Disorders of Autophagy.- 60. Lipidoses: The Sphingolipidoses, Lysosomal Acid Lipase Deficiency and Niemann Pick type C.- 61. The Neuronal Ceroid Lipofuscinoses.-62. Mucolipidoses, Multiple Sulfatase deficiency, Cathepsin K and C Deficiency.- 63. Oligosaccharidoses and Sialic Acid Disorders.- 64. The Mucopolysaccharidoses.- 65. Cystinosis.- Part 9. DISORDERS OF PEROXISOMES AND OXALATE.- 66. Peroxisomal Disorders.- 67. Disorders for Oxalate Metabolism.- Part 10. CONGENITAL DISORDERS OF GLYCOSYLATION.- 68. Congenital Disorders of Glycosylation.- Part 11. VARIOUS.- 69. Cerebral Organic Acidurias.- 70. 3-Methylglutaconic acidurias.- 71. Biochemical Phenotypes of Questionable Clinical Significance.- 72. Knowledgebase of Inborn Errors of Metabolism (IEMbase): A Practical Approach.- 73. WikiPathways: Integrating Pathway Knowledge with Clinical Data.