Please confirm topic selection

Are you sure you want to trigger topic in your Anconeus AI algorithm?

Please confirm action

You are done for today with this topic.

Would you like to start learning session with this topic items scheduled for future?

Updated: Dec 10 2021

Tuberous Sclerosis

  • Snapshot
    • A 6-month-old infant is brought to the emergency department after the parent noticed symmetric and synchronous spasmodic movement of the neck, trunk, and extremities. Hypopigmented area of the skin is notable on physical examination, which can be better visualized on Wood’s lamp. Hypsarrhythmia is seen on EEG.
  • Introduction
    • Tuberous sclerosis
      • neurocutaneous autosomal dominant disease
        • mutation in either TSC1 (encodes hamartin on chromosome 9) and TSC2 (encodes tuberin on chromosome 16) is associated with tuberous sclerosis
          • normally, hamartin and tuberin form a complex that down regulates mTOR signaling
      • characterized by hamartoma and benign neoplasm development in the brain and various tissues
        • cerebral cortex
          • cortical hamartomas (“tubers”)
            • associated with seizures, which are difficult to control with seizure treatment
            • subependymal astrocytic proliferation
        • retina
          • retinal glial hamartomas
        • heart
          • cardiac rhabdomyomas
        • renal
          • renal angiomyolipomas
      • cutaneous manifestations
        • adenoma sebaceum (angiofibromas)
        • hypopigmented macule (ash leaf spot)
        • shagreen patches
          • patches of localized leathery thickenings
        • periungual fibromas
  • Presentation and Evaluation
    • Depending on where benign tumors develop (i.e., brain, heart, skin, etc.), as mentioned above
      • seizure
        • a frequent and significant cause of morbidity
        • infantile spasm
          • most common type of seizure at initial diagnosis
          • hypsarrythmia can be seen on EEG
  • Treatment
    • Infantile spasms
      • adrenocorticotropic hormone (ACTH)
        • beneficial in the treatment of infantile spasms in patients with or without tuberous sclerosis
        • how it treats infantile spasm in not fully understood
      • vigabatrin
        • may be effective in the treatment of infantile spasms in patients with tuberous sclerosis
        • believed to irreversibly inhibit GABA transaminase, to increase GABA concentration in the brain
      • ketogenic diet or vagus nerve stimulator
        • can be considered in medically intractable seizures
Card
1 of 0
Question
1 of 5
Private Note