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Table 1 Overview of diagnoses of children with metabolic diseases (n = 29)

From: Challenges of palliative care in children with inborn metabolic diseases

Lysosomal storage diseases

Sphingolipidoses

• Canavan disease

1

• Krabbe disease

1

• Other

2

Sulfatidoses

• Metachromatic leukodystrophy

3

Gangliosidoses

• GM2 Gangliosidosis (Tay-Sachs disease)

1

 Alexander disease

2

 Mucopolysaccharidoses

2

Neuronal ceroid lipofuscinosis

2

Fatty acid disorders

• Medium-chain acyl-CoA dehydrogenase (MCAD) deficiency

*1

Glycine metabolism disorders

• Hyperglycinemia, nonketotic

2

Mitochondrial diseases

• Pearson syndrome

*2

• Leigh syndrome

*2

EARS2 mutation

*1

TMEM70 mutation

*1

• etiology unknown

*4

Methionine metabolism disorders

• Sulfite oxidase deficiency

*1

Cofactor deficiency disorders

• Molybdenum cofactor deficiency

*1

  1. Those diseases, which can present with metabolic crises are marked with an asterisk