Shah Seema, Jondhale Sunil, Sahoo Manas Ranjan, Jagzape Tushar, Keshri Swasti, Goel Anil Kumar
Department of Biochemistry, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Raipur, India.
Department of Pediatrics, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Raipur, India.
Indian J Clin Biochem. 2023 Oct;38(4):550-552. doi: 10.1007/s12291-021-01010-y. Epub 2021 Oct 7.
Pseudo-Bartter's (PB) syndrome is characterized by hypokalemic metabolic alkalosis and failure to thrive which constitutes a rare but typical presentation of cystic fibrosis (CF) in children. The most common mutation of CF is F508del, due to loss of 3 base pairs, causing deletion of phenylalanine, at position 508. We present a case of CF presenting with failure to thrive, dehydration, PB syndrome associated with urosepsis and primo-colonization with suggesting the role of epigenetic factors. The heterozygous state for Phe508del mutation in Exon 11 combination with Glu92Ala in Exon 4 resulted in epigenetic effect on atypical phenotype as PBS, a novel mutation identified in our case.