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Cystinuria is an autosomal recessive disorder characterized by a decrease in the reabsorption of cystine and dibasic amino acids (lysine, ornithine, and arginine) in the renal proximal tubule. It presents with recurrent urolithiasis. Cystinuria accounts for 6–8% of all pediatric urolithiasis. The age of onset is typically 10–30 years. Here, we report a case of early-onset cystinuria. A 4-month-old girl presented with hematuria. We noticed multiple renal calculi in ultrasonography and abdominal computerized tomography scans. The diagnosis was cystinuria with urinary calculus analysis and urinary amino acid analysis. The patient was treated with urine alkalinization and cystine chelating drugs. Gene analysis showed a P482L heterozygous mutation from her mother, and an A70V heterozygous mutation from her father, in the SLC7A9 gene. This gene encodes a putative subunit of the neutral and basic amino acid transport protein, BAT1. Although cystinuria is an autosomal recessive disease, there have been previous reports of P482L heterozygous mutations greatly suppressing cystine reabsorption and causing cystinuria symptoms. Therefore, the highly influential P482L mutation of the SLC7A9 gene may have contributed to the onset of this autosomal recessive disease at an extremely young age.
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Ikeyama, S., Kanda, S., Sakamoto, S. et al. A case of early onset cystinuria in a 4-month-old girl. CEN Case Rep 11, 216–219 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13730-021-00655-1
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