Cerebral neoplasms in L-2 hydroxyglutaric aciduria: 3 new cases and meta-analysis of literature data

AJNR Am J Neuroradiol. 2012 May;33(5):940-3. doi: 10.3174/ajnr.A2869. Epub 2012 Jan 12.

Abstract

Increasing evidence suggests that patients with L2-HGA have a predisposition to cerebral neoplasms. This may be related to the pathologic accumulation of L2-HG because high amounts of 2-HG have been found in brain neoplasms that have IDH1 mutations. Our experience, on the basis of 11 previously unreported cases of L2-HGA, 3 of which developed cerebral neoplasms during the course of the disease, also supports an association between L2-HGA and cerebral neoplasms. We conducted a meta-analysis of published data, and we identified 295 patients (including our 11 patients) with L2-HGA. In 14 patients, the metabolic disorder was associated with cerebral neoplasms, suggesting an approximately 5% prevalence rate of CNS neoplasms in patients with L2-HGA; nonetheless, it may still be an underestimate. L2-HGA is an important disease "model" that provides further evidence to support the recently proposed pathogenetic role of 2-HG in the development of cerebral neoplasms.

Publication types

  • Case Reports
  • Meta-Analysis
  • Review

MeSH terms

  • Adolescent
  • Adult
  • Brain Diseases, Metabolic, Inborn / epidemiology*
  • Brain Diseases, Metabolic, Inborn / pathology*
  • Brain Neoplasms / epidemiology*
  • Brain Neoplasms / pathology*
  • Causality
  • Child, Preschool
  • Comorbidity
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Magnetic Resonance Imaging / statistics & numerical data
  • Male
  • Prevalence
  • Risk Assessment
  • Young Adult

Supplementary concepts

  • 2-Hydroxyglutaricaciduria