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Daily Fructose Traces Intake and Liver Injury in Children with Hereditary Fructose Intolerance

2019; Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute; Volume: 11; Issue: 10 Linguagem: Inglês

10.3390/nu11102397

2072-6643

Fabiola Di Dato, Simona Spadarella, Maria Giovanna Puoti, Maria Grazia Caprio, Severo Pagliardini, Claudia Zuppaldi, Gianfranco Vallone, Simona Fecarotta, Gabriella Esposito, Raffaele Iorio, Giancarlo Parenti, Maria Immacolata Spagnuolo,

Diet and metabolism studies

Background: Hereditary fructose intolerance (HFI) is a rare genetic disorder of fructose metabolism due to aldolase B enzyme deficiency. Treatment consists of fructose, sorbitol, and sucrose (FSS)-free diet. We explore possible correlations between daily fructose traces intake and liver injury biomarkers on a long-term period, in a cohort of young patients affected by HFI. Methods: Patients’ clinical data and fructose daily intake were retrospectively collected. Correlations among fructose intake, serum alanine aminotransferase (ALT) level, carbohydrate-deficient transferrin (CDT) percentage, liver ultrasonography, genotype were analyzed. Results: We included 48 patients whose mean follow-up was 10.3 ± 5.6 years and fructose intake 169 ± 145.4 mg/day. Eighteen patients had persistently high ALT level, nine had abnormal CDT profile, 45 had signs of liver steatosis. Fructose intake did not correlate with ALT level nor with steatosis severity, whereas it correlated with disialotransferrin percentage (R2 0.7, p < 0.0001) and tetrasialotransferrin/disialotransferrin ratio (R2 0.5, p = 0.0001). p.A150P homozygous patients had lower ALT values at diagnosis than p.A175D variant homozygotes cases (58 ± 55 IU/L vs. 143 ± 90 IU/L, p = 0.01). Conclusion: A group of HFI patients on FSS-free diet presented persistent mild hypertransaminasemia which did not correlate with fructose intake. Genotypes may influence serum liver enzyme levels. CDT profile represents a good marker to assess FSS intake.