21-hydroxylase deficiency history and symptoms

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Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1]; Associate Editor-In-Chief: Mehrian Jafarizade, M.D [2]

Overview

Symptom of 21-hydroxylase deficiency ranges from severe to mild or asymptomatic forms, depending on the degree of 21-hydroxylase enzyme deficiency. There are three main clinical phenotypes: classic salt-wasting, classic non-salt-wasting (simple virilizing), and non-classic (late-onset). In classical type, main symptoms can be sever hypotension due to adrenal crisis, ambiguous genitalia in females, and no symptoms or larger phallus in males. In non-classic types, infants and male patients may have no symptoms and females may show virilization symptoms after puberty.

History and Symptoms

Symptom of 21-hydroxylase deficiency ranges from severe to mild or asymptomatic forms, depending on the degree of 21-hydroxylase enzyme deficiency. There are three main clinical phenotypes: classic salt-wasting, classic non-salt-wasting (simple virilizing), and non-classic (late-onset):[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8]

21-OH deficiency type Common symptoms Less common symptoms
Infancy Female Male Female Male
Classic type

In salt wasting type

  • Normal appearing at birth(mostly)
  • Male-typical cognitive pattern (better performance on spatial tasks, worse performance on verbal tasks)
Non-classic type
  • No symptoms
  • Premature pubarche.
  • Advance bone age
  • Medication resistant cystic acne
  • Accelerated growth with tall stature as a child in prepubertal period
  • Hirsutism
  • Oligomenorrhea
  • Acne
  • Hirsutism, acne and menstrual irregularity in young women
  • Early pubarche or sexual precocity in school age children
  • Mild subfertility due to hyperandrogenemia and anovulatory cycles (fertility rate depends the enzyme amount).
  • No symptoms
  • Premature pubarche.
  • Advance bone age
  • Medication resistant cystic acne
  • Accelerated growth with tall stature as a child
  • Clitoromegaly
  • Infertility
  • Alopecia
  • Primary amenorrhea
  • Acne
  • Infertility

 

References

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  2. Mathews GA, Fane BA, Conway GS, Brook CG, Hines M (2009). "Personality and congenital adrenal hyperplasia: possible effects of prenatal androgen exposure". Horm Behav. 55 (2): 285–91. doi:10.1016/j.yhbeh.2008.11.007. PMC 3296092. PMID 19100266.
  3. Mulaikal RM, Migeon CJ, Rock JA (1987). "Fertility rates in female patients with congenital adrenal hyperplasia due to 21-hydroxylase deficiency". N Engl J Med. 316 (4): 178–82. doi:10.1056/NEJM198701223160402. PMID 3491959.
  4. Stikkelbroeck NM, Hermus AR, Braat DD, Otten BJ (2003). "Fertility in women with congenital adrenal hyperplasia due to 21-hydroxylase deficiency". Obstet Gynecol Surv. 58 (4): 275–84. doi:10.1097/01.OGX.0000062966.93819.5B. PMID 12665708.
  5. Hagenfeldt K, Janson PO, Holmdahl G, Falhammar H, Filipsson H, Frisén L; et al. (2008). "Fertility and pregnancy outcome in women with congenital adrenal hyperplasia due to 21-hydroxylase deficiency". Hum Reprod. 23 (7): 1607–13. doi:10.1093/humrep/den118. PMID 18420648.
  6. van der Kamp HJ, Wit JM (2004). "Neonatal screening for congenital adrenal hyperplasia". Eur. J. Endocrinol. 151 Suppl 3: U71–5. PMID 15554889.
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  8. Zucker KJ, Bradley SJ, Oliver G, Blake J, Fleming S, Hood J (1996). "Psychosexual development of women with congenital adrenal hyperplasia". Horm Behav. 30 (4): 300–18. doi:10.1006/hbeh.1996.0038. PMID 9047259.