Abstract
Abstract
Background
Primary familial brain calcification (PFBC) is a rare inherited neurological disorder characterized by bilateral basal ganglia calcification with a series of motor and nonmotor symptoms. Mutations in the SLC20A2 gene, encoding the PiT2 protein, are the major cause of the disease. Here, we report a Chinese PFBC family carrying a SLC20A2 gene mutation, and the proband presented with purely acute psychiatric symptoms, which has been rarely reported in this disease.
Case presentation
A 38-year-old woman was hospitalized due to disorganized speech; disordered thought contents; disorganized behaviour; emotional instability and lability; and grandiose words, actions and facial expressions. Brain computerized tomography (CT) revealed calcification in the basal ganglia; cerebellar dentate nuclei; and subcortical, periventricular, and deep white matter regions in she and her family members. Through mutation analysis, a heterozygous truncating mutation, c.1723G > T, p.(Glu575*), was identified in the SLC20A2 gene in this family. Thus, this patient was diagnosed with genetically confirmed PFBC, and she responded well to a low dose of antipsychotic drugs. The penetrance of the disease in this family was only 33%, which was significantly lower than that in most families carrying SLC20A2 gene mutations.
Conclusions
Patients with SLC20A2-related PFBC might present with psychiatric symptoms alone, and the penetrance of the disease may be quite low, which adds to the clinical heterogeneity of the disease.
Funder
Shandong Provincial Natural Science Foundation
Key Research and Development Project of Shandong Province
Publisher
Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Subject
Neurology (clinical),General Medicine
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