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Respiratory manifestations in patients with inherited metabolic diseases

Francesca Santamaria, Silvia Montella, Virginia Mirra, Sara De Stefano, Generoso Andria, Giancarlo Parenti
European Respiratory Review 2013 22: 437-453; DOI: 10.1183/09059180.00008012
Francesca Santamaria
Dept of Paediatrics, Federico II University, Naples, Italy
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Silvia Montella
Dept of Paediatrics, Federico II University, Naples, Italy
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Virginia Mirra
Dept of Paediatrics, Federico II University, Naples, Italy
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Sara De Stefano
Dept of Paediatrics, Federico II University, Naples, Italy
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Generoso Andria
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Giancarlo Parenti
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Abstract

Growing evidence indicates that inherited metabolic diseases are increasingly being recognised. Life expectancy for many patients is progressively improving because new therapeutic strategies are available. Because most inherited metabolic diseases are systemic disorders, virtually all organs may be involved. Respiratory disease complicates the management of several inherited metabolic diseases, either at presentation or as late-onset features. This review will describe the most exemplary respiratory manifestations of inherited metabolic diseases in childhood and adulthood. Since airways disease worsens the morbidity of many inherited metabolic disorders, leading to increased hospitalisations, mortality and overall healthcare costs, respiratory manifestations of inherited metabolic diseases need to be carefully recognised and treated. All patients with inherited metabolic disease and suspected airway disease should undergo a detailed diagnostic work-up. Current treatments for several inherited metabolic diseases (including enzyme replacement therapy, substrate reduction, bone marrow transplantation, or even more innovative strategies such as pharmacological chaperone or gene therapies) may provide significant benefits for associated respiratory disease. The integration of several specialists dedicated to airway disease management in a multidisciplinary team is essential to provide the most appropriate care to children and adults with inherited metabolic disease.

Introduction

Approximately 400 human diseases due to inborn errors of metabolism are recognised. This number is increasing as novel techniques become available and allow for the identification of new biochemical and molecular abnormalities [1]. The vast majority of inherited metabolic diseases are caused by enzymes and transport protein abnormalities.

Because most inherited metabolic diseases are systemic, virtually all organs may be involved. During the past decades, research has expanded and multidisciplinary efforts by several specialists have succeeded in defining the complex phenotype [2]. Many disorders cause respiratory disease, which is often not immediately associated with inherited metabolic disease. Regrettably, the literature mainly describes anecdotal cases or small series reports.

Respiratory manifestations are part of the clinical picture of several inherited metabolic diseases, either at presentation or as late-onset features. Laryngeal stridor was reported as a leading presentation of biotinidase deficiency [3]. Polypnoea is a frequent neonatal feature of congenital lactic acidoses [2]. Interstitial lung disease (ILD) and pulmonary hypertension are by far the most frequently described complications in lysosomal storage disorders. Pulmonary hypertension may be seen in non-ketotic hyperglycaemia [4], and was described in glycogenoses type I [5, 6], inborn errors of intracellular cobalamin metabolism [7], HUPRA (hyperuricaemia, pulmonary hypertension, renal failure and alkalosis) syndrome and in Wolman disease [8, 9]. Several inherited metabolic diseases involve nervous or neuromuscular systems, are usually progressive, and often cause chronic airway aspiration and respiratory infections. This is the case of some organic acidaemia [10, 11] and of several mitochondrial disorders [12]. Immune defects, such as chronic neutropenia or lymphocyte impairment, are described in some inherited metabolic diseases (glycogenosis Ib and hereditary orotic aciduria), and may explain the development of marked susceptibility to airway infections [13, 14]. Inherited metabolic disorders with neurological involvement leading to severe disability can be associated with progressive chest and spine deformities, which predispose to respiratory insufficiency as a consequence of mechanical impairment. Finally, pulmonary complications taken together can cause significant disability and are the usual cause of premature death.

Inherited metabolic diseases may affect the upper and lower airways, the thoracic wall and all muscles involved in ventilation. In lysosomal storage disorders lower airway involvement may derive from accumulation of abnormal metabolites and/or macrophages with intracytoplasmatic metabolites in the airspaces and interstitium, or from chronic airway aspiration due to swallowing disorders associated with neuromotor delay. Alveolar hypoventilation due to respiratory muscle dysfunction and/or abnormal respiratory mechanics related to enlarged abdominal organs may develop in glycogenoses and lysosomal disorders. Obstructive sleep apnoea syndrome (OSAS) due to craniofacial abnormalities and/or upper and middle airway soft tissue anomalies is frequently reported in mucopolysaccharidoses (MPS). Finally, pulmonary hypertension that complicates some lysosomal disorders may be due to the chronic hypoxaemia secondary to ILD, associated liver disease with intrapulmonary shunting, or to infiltration of pulmonary vessels by abnormal cells or metabolites (table 1) [15–17].

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Table 1. Major respiratory manifestations in inherited metabolic diseases

Herein we will describe the most exemplary respiratory manifestations of inherited metabolic diseases by using paradigmatic models of selected disorders. We will also consider the assessments that should be included in patient management and will discuss whether and how available treatments are effective in inherited metabolic disease-associated airway disease.

Lysosomal disorders

Niemann–Pick disease

Niemann–Pick disease types A and B result from the deficient activity of sphingomyelinase, a lysosomal enzyme encoded by the SMPD1 gene [18]. The defect results in the pathological accumulation of sphingomyelin and others lipids in the monocyte–macrophage system. The progressive deposition of sphingomyelin in various organs is responsible for the neurodegenerative course of Niemann–Pick type A and for the systemic manifestations of Niemann–Pick type B, which include progressive lung disease in some patients [19]. Niemann–Pick disease type C is a different disorder due to either NPC1 or NPC2 gene mutations that severely impair intracellular lipid transport and cause accumulation of unesterified cholesterol and several glycosphingolipids in some tissues and organs, especially the brain [20–22]. Dysphagia increases the risk of silent and nonsilent aspirations and lung infections [23].

Although lung involvement in Niemann–Pick disease is frequently reported, its prevalence is unknown. In a French study of 13 children with Niemann–Pick disease types A, B and C, who were nevertheless selected based on their respiratory symptoms, chronic pulmonary disease or fatal respiratory failure were evident during the follow-up in all cases [24]. The clinical spectrum of manifestations includes wheezing, lower airways infections and reduced exercise tolerance [25]. In a study from Turkey the evaluation of bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL) or lung biopsy in type B disease showed abnormal macrophages (foamy cells or Niemann–Pick cells) which typically accumulate within the alveolar spaces, the lymphatic interlobular vessels and the sub-pleural spaces [26].

In Niemann–Pick disease type A, which is dominated by early, severe neurological deterioration, ILD evidence on chest radiography was reported less frequently than in type B [27]. Most infants with type A disease may experience minimal respiratory difficulty in the first year of life, but recurrent bronchitis or aspiration pneumonia culminating in life-threatening or fatal events were reported [20]. Patients with Niemann–Pick disease type B may be asymptomatic for years or have only mild dyspnoea on exertion, but in some cases a fatal pulmonary disease was described [24, 26, 28]. Diffuse interstitial and nodular infiltrates with basal predominance, as well as honeycombing on chest radiography, or ground-glass opacities on chest high-resolution computed tomography (HRCT), may be regularly found in young children and in adults with type B disease [24, 25, 29] even in the absence of functional abnormalities [30]. Patients with Niemann–Pick disease type C may have diffuse ILD as a presenting feature, or aspiration pneumonia because of neurological disease [23, 31, 32]. Finally, it has been reported that a small subset of infants with the severe NPC2 mutation may develop respiratory insufficiency due to pulmonary alveolar proteinosis (PAP) [33]. Figure 1 shows the typical chest radiograph findings in Niemann–Pick disease type A and the HRCT features in Niemann–Pick disease type C.

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a) A 2-year-old male with Niemann–Pick disease type A. Chest radiograph shows multiple airspace consolidations in right lower and middle lobes, and diffuse reticulonodular infiltrate. b) A 7-year-old male with Niemann–Pick disease type C and NPC2 mutation. High-resolution computed tomography shows bilateral patchy airspace ground-glass opacities with diffuse thickening of the interlobular septa.

As many patients with Niemann–Pick disease experience respiratory manifestations, sometimes primarily, they should be referred early to a paediatric or adult pulmonologist to establish a detailed schedule of follow-up visits and investigations. Routine HRCT should be recommended in cases with symptoms and signs suggestive of pulmonary disease that might benefit from whole lung lavage as treatment [34, 35].

Gaucher disease

Gaucher disease is caused by a deficiency of glucocerebrosidase (β-glucosidase) activity [36]. The hallmark of Gaucher disease is the presence of lipid-laden macrophages (Gaucher cells) in a variety of tissues, the largest number of them being found in the spleen, liver, bone marrow, lymph nodes and the central nervous system.

A significant phenotypic variability resulting from Gaucher disease genetic heterogeneity has been reported [37, 38]. The substitution of serine for asparagine at amino acid residue 370 (the N370S mutation) is associated with type I disease (non-neuronopathic variant), whereas a substitution of proline for leucine at amino acid residue 444 (the L444P mutation) is associated with type II and type III homozygous state diseases (acute and subacute neuronopathic variants, respectively) [37]. Homozygosity for the L444P mutation is associated in almost all cases with type III Gaucher disease [36]. In patients homozygous for the D409H mutation, the phenotypic manifestations including oculomotor apraxia, splenomegaly, and cardiac valve and big vessel calcifications correlated with this genotype [39].

Lung involvement was described in all Gaucher disease types, and in more than one-third of the subjects examined post mortem [40]. Most of the cases with recurrent pulmonary infections and progressive dyspnoea, or pulmonary haemorrhage culminating in fatal respiratory insufficiency, were children with a severe Gaucher disease course [38, 41]. Nevertheless, chest radiographs or computed tomography (CT) abnormalities were also described in type I adults [42, 43]. Kerem et al. [44] reported that Gaucher disease type I subjects with the “mild” genotype N370S and impaired lung function had a higher severity score index than those with normal pulmonary function. Younger subjects with different genotypes and more serious respiratory manifestations were not evaluated and, thus, the authors could not conclude that a genotype–phenotype correlation with regard to Gaucher disease lung disease exists. In a study of adults and adolescents with Gaucher disease type I, lung disease was clinically evident in <5% of the cases, with main features including dyspnoea and exercise limitation that were not associated with lung function or lung imaging abnormalities [45]. A higher prevalence of respiratory disease was reported in children and adults with Gaucher disease type I and III from Italy [46]. In this population, pulmonary involvement appeared significantly more frequent in subjects who were homoallelic for the L444P mutation than in patients with other genotypes, with ILD being the principal feature. Gaucher disease patients with genotypes other than L444P/L444P did not show any radiological sign of lung damage.

Pulmonary involvement in Gaucher disease is multifaceted and due to several mechanisms. Gaucher cells can fill the alveolar spaces and/or the inter- and intralobular septa, leading to air space disease and/or ILD, respectively. Pulmonary vascular disease is probably more common than suspected. Pulmonary hypertension due to plexogenic arteriopathy and intrapulmonary shunts related to the hepatopulmonary syndrome have been described in the same individual [47], and are the probable cause of severe respiratory failure in Gaucher disease even in the absence of Gaucher cells in the lung [16, 48]. Splenectomy and female sex seem to be the most important risk factors for pulmonary hypertension in Gaucher disease [15]. Although capillary plugging by Gaucher cells may favour the development of pulmonary hypertension, it has also been hypothesised that a circulating vasoactive substance that bypasses the diseased liver may be responsible for it [16]. Finally, chronic hypoxaemia secondary to ILD, associated liver disease, long bone infection and fracture with pulmonary emboli may result in pulmonary hypertension [44].Whatever the pathogenesis, digital clubbing is described as a common feature of pulmonary vascular disease in Gaucher disease.

In Gaucher disease, hepatosplenomegaly and spinal deformities progressively lead to small lung volumes and to changes of the pulmonary vascular bed with secondary hypoventilation due to limited diaphragmatic excursions. Increased lung surfactant phosphatidylcholine levels can lead to high susceptibility to respiratory infections in type I Gaucher disease [49]. Finally, in cases with predominant neurological involvement, aspiration pneumonia may occur because of swallowing disorders associated with neuromotor delay [36].

Given the importance of lung involvement in Gaucher disease, it is essential that patients are referred to the pulmonary unit and that monitoring is scheduled at predetermined intervals [50]. It was proposed that the Gaucher disease severity score should also include lung function and chest imaging findings [46, 51]. This would allow physicians to consider pulmonary status as an outcome parameter for evaluating the effects of treatment in Gaucher disease.

Fabry disease

In Fabry disease, an X-linked error of glycosphingolipid catabolism caused by a partial or total defect of α-galactosidase A, deposition of glycosphingolipids was also reported in the lung [1]. Recurrent cough due to chronic bronchitis, wheezing, dyspnoea at rest with alveolar capillary block, and exercise intolerance seem more frequent in adults than in children [52–54]. Nevertheless, in older hemizygotes, pulmonary function tests show mild-to-moderate obstruction with reduced diffusing capacity in the absence of symptoms [55, 56].

Farber lipogranulomatosis

In patients with Farber lipogranulomatosis, which is due to a deficiency of acid ceramidase activity that results in the deposition of ceramide in the heart, lymph nodes and airways, severe pulmonary infections are the usual cause of death [1]. The characteristic features of Farber disease type I in paediatrics include a hoarse cry progressing to aphonia, dysphagia and respiratory difficulties, possibly leading to fatal failure [57–59].

Hermansky–Pudlak syndrome

Hermansky–Pudlak syndrome is caused by mutations in several genes that encode proteins regulating the biogenesis or transport of lysosome-related organelles and lysosomes in specialised secretory cells, including type II pneumocytes [60]. Lysosomal ceroid-like lipofuscin accumulates in the reticuloendothelial system, particularly in alveolar macrophages. Among the different types, Hermansky–Pudlak syndrome-1 is the subtype most frequently associated with increased lung disease risk [61, 62]. Patients with Hermansky–Pudlak syndrome, especially females, may develop pulmonary fibrosis with excessive inflammatory cells and lipofuscin ceroid within the alveolar macrophages [63]. Pulmonary disease, usually starting in adult life, presents with chronic nonproductive cough, progressive dyspnoea and restrictive pattern [64]. Reticulonodular interstitial pattern, perihilar fibrosis, pleural thickening on chest radiographs, septal thickening, ground-glass opacities and peribronchovascular thickening on HRCT correlate with decreasing vital capacity [64].

Wolman disease

Wolman disease is a rare, autosomal recessive disorder characterised by a deficient activity of lysosomal acid lipase that results in large accumulation of cholesteryl esters and triglycerides in the liver, spleen, lymph nodes, lung, adrenal cortex and small bowel [65].The lungs of patients with Wolman disease may contain variable numbers of foam cells in the alveoli [66]. The extensive atherosclerosis suggests that the deficiency of an enzyme involved in lipid metabolism may lead to accelerated atherosclerosis. In addition, these patients are considered at risk for the development of significant pulmonary hypertension [9].

Disorders of amino acids transport and metabolism

Lysinuric protein intolerance

Lysinuric protein intolerance, an autosomal recessive transport defect of the cationic amino acids (i.e. lysine, arginine and ornithine), is caused by mutations in the SLC7A7 gene, which encodes the y(+)LAT-1 protein, the catalytic light chain subunit of a complex belonging to the heterodimeric amino acid transporter family [67, 68]. The defect is expressed in the intestine and renal tubules, and probably in hepatocytes and skin fibroblasts. Most clinical manifestations of lysinuric protein intolerance (i.e. failure to thrive, gastrointestinal disease, bone-marrow abnormalities, osteoporosis and renal disease) have been well characterised and are related to the metabolic derangement [69]. Treatment with a low-protein diet supplemented with citrulline, which is not affected by the transport defect, produces clinical improvement.

The majority of lysinuric protein intolerance patients have been described in Finland and in southern Italy [69, 70]. Among the clinical manifestations, pulmonary disease represents a rare, but life-threatening, complication sometimes leading to fatal respiratory insufficiency that may begin with acute or subacute features.

Respiratory manifestations of lysinuric protein intolerance range from radiological signs of ILD with diffuse or localised reticulo-nodular infiltrates and/or thickening of the inter-/intralobular walls septa [71], in the absence of overt clinical symptoms, to severe lung disease [72, 73].

ILD may precede the acute clinical phase of lysinuric protein intolerance [72, 74], and although no effective treatment for it exists at present, it is important to unequivocally assess pulmonary involvement early in the disease process. Severe respiratory insufficiency was the presenting feature of a young male in whom the lung biopsy showed ILD with cholesterol casts around and within macrophages and alveolar cells [75]. The majority of symptomatic patients present with moderate-to-severe wheezing, susceptibility to respiratory infections that cause recurrent to chronic cough, progressive poor tolerance to efforts and, sometimes, mild-to-moderate haemoptysis [72]. At this stage of the disease, BAL shows a high number of macrophages with significantly more multilamellar structures than control cells [76]. Furthermore, alveolar activation and subclinical alveolitis have been associated with lysinuric protein intolerance lung disease [65].

One of the most severe complications of lysinuric protein intolerance is PAP [71–73, 77]. PAP is characterised by excessive surfactant accumulation within the alveolar spaces, probably caused by an imbalance between production of surfactant-like material by type II pneumocytes and clearance by alveolar macrophages [78, 79]. Immunological abnormalities, including decreased IgA and autoimmunity, were previously demonstrated in PAP, but were not associated with lysinuric protein intolerance [80]. However, the report of PAP in siblings suggests that genetic factors are important, or that some of the cases may also have lysinuric protein intolerance [81]. In lysinuric protein intolerance, the clinical picture of PAP is dominated by moderate-to-severe manifestations that may progress to severe and often fatal respiratory failure [69]. Bilateral infiltrates are typically present on chest radiography, and HRCT reveals ground-glass opacities and airspace consolidation with interlobular septal thickening in the characteristic diffuse or localised “crazy paving” pattern (fig. 2). The pathogenesis of lysinuric protein intolerance lung disease is still obscure. A case report of a young child with lysinuric protein intolerance and progressive respiratory failure due to PAP who underwent heart–lung transplant and died with recurrent PAP in the transplanted lung, led to the hypothesis that the defective transport of the cationic amino acids is also present in the alveolar macrophages [82]. This would justify the increased availability of arginine and, consequently, an increased synthesis of nitric oxide that, in the presence of inflammatory cytokines and endotoxins, may result in progressive lung disease [83, 84]. This hypothesis was confirmed in a study which reported that the transport system of y(+)LAT-1 in the BAL monocytes and alveolar macrophages from an adult with lysinuric protein intolerance and PAP is impaired [85]. Patients with lysinuric protein intolerance do not present high levels of circulating granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor (GM-CSF) autoantibodies [85, 86], thus suggesting that the GM-CSF signalling pathway is unaltered in lysinuric protein intolerance. This finding, combined with the demonstration that SLC7A7/y+LAT1 mutations lead to a defective phenotype of macrophages [86], support a fundamental role of these cells in the development of PAP in lysinuric protein intolerance.

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A 15-year-old female with lysinuric protein intolerance. High-resolution computed tomography shows ground-glass opacities with localised pulmonary alveolar proteinoisis-like pattern (crazy paving pattern, arrowhead).

While it is still a matter of debate as to whether citrulline is beneficial or even worsens the clinical course of lysinuric protein intolerance [69], unfortunately respiratory complications of lysinuric protein intolerance do not seem to be influenced by early treatment or citrulline supplementation [69]. Despite this, the age at onset of respiratory symptoms seems critical for the definition of lung disease severity, and patients with symptoms and signs in the first decade of life generally have worse pulmonary prognosis [72]. PAP is less common in children with lysinuric protein intolerance than in adults, but the course seems more aggressive in childhood. For this reason parents of affected children, and adult patients themselves, should be repeatedly warned of pulmonary symptoms.

Glycogenoses

Glycogen storage diseases are disorders affecting glycogen metabolism [1]. Respiratory manifestations were observed primarily in glycogenosis type I and type II [87]. Pulmonary hypertension is a rare and severe complication of type Ia (due to glucose-6-phosphatase deficiency) and type Ib (due to glucose-6-phosphate translocase deficiency) [5, 6], the mechanism of which is unclear [88]. It has been postulated that vasoconstrictive amines such as serotonin, a pulmonary vasoconstrictor and growth factor for vascular smooth muscle cells that is stored in platelets, could favour the development of pulmonary hypertension in type Ia glycogenosis [88].

Type II glycogenosis (Pompe disease) is caused by α-glucosidase deficiency [89]. According to the age at symptoms onset, three forms of disease were described. 1) The most severe form, diagnosed in infants between 3 and 5 months of age (floppy babies) during the assessment of a respiratory infection, cardiomegaly or severe generalised hypotonia, in which the progressive and debilitating musculoskeletal, respiratory and cardiac symptoms result in early death. 2) The non-classical infantile form, with onset between the first and second year of life, characterised by recurrent respiratory infections and a variable prognosis. 3) The late-onset form, which can occur at any age starting from childhood, with slow muscular involvement, absence of cardiac involvement and less severe outcome than the classical form [90]. Respiratory insufficiency is a serious threat to patients with Pompe disease in infancy, as well as in late childhood or adolescence [91]. Respiratory manifestations in patients with Pompe disease do not primarily involve the airways. The basic issue is excessive diaphragmatic weakness and subsequent peripheral alveolar hypoventilation. The occurrence of progressive, sometimes fatal, respiratory failure is primarily due to the inability of the respiratory muscles to generate normal levels of pressure and airflow during in- and expiration. These events significantly impair the removal of airway secretions and, therefore, recurrent infections, even pneumonia and atelectasis, which can eventually result in severe respiratory failure, were reported [90]. Respiratory symptoms may occur during the night, with apnoea or hypoventilation worsening the clinical course [92]. In a prospective study of children and adults with Pompe disease, 74% of all patients, including 53% of the children, had some degree of functional impairment, with male subjects, patients with severe muscle weakness and those with advanced disease duration appearing most at risk of mechanical ventilation [93]. Pellegrini et al. [94] did not find any correlation between the age of 29 patients with late-onset Pompe disease and the presence, in some cases, of severe respiratory insufficiency without severe limb girdle muscle weakness, and highlighted that respiratory function should be monitored independently from the degree of peripheral muscle weakness.

Mucopolysaccharidoses

MPS are caused by a deficiency of one of the lysosomal enzymes needed for the glycosaminoglycan (GAG) breakdown pathway [1]. These disorders compose a heterogeneous group of nine forms characterised by GAG accumulation in several organs and tissues. The hallmarks of most phenotypes derive from multiple anatomical abnormalities including: facial dysmorphism with coarse face, macrocephaly, thick lips, hypertrophic gums and enlarged tongue; dysostosis and joint motion limitation; hepatosplenomegaly; and cardiovascular anomalies [95]. Mental retardation is not common to all MPS.

Cardiorespiratory involvement is an important cause of morbidity and mortality, particularly in some types of MPS [96]. The GAG deposition in the upper airways, which become increasingly narrowed, is probably a major determinant of symptoms in Hurler (MPS type I), Hunter (MPS type II), Morquio (MPS type IV) and Maroteaux-Lamy (MPS type VI) syndromes [95, 97–99]. In the vast majority of patients, noisy breathing, oral snoring and even severe OSAS dominate the clinical picture, and recurrent airway infections are reported at all ages [97, 99–104]. Severe respiratory problems that significantly contribute to premature mortality were reported in MPS type I, II, IV and VI [104].

Upper airway obstruction of MPS is multifaceted [95, 97]. An enlarged tongue and bone craniofacial abnormalities, namely micrognathia, result in predominant nasal breathing and oral snoring [97, 105]. Upper airway obstruction and OSAS, combined with thoracic cage deformity and tracheal distortion due to shortened spinal height, lead to frequent total airway collapse, as reported in adults with Morquio's syndrome [102, 106].

GAG deposition in the pharynx, larynx and trachea may lead to the need for proper airway management, from intubation to tracheostomy tube placement. Ultimately, this results in potentially life-threatening anaesthetic complications and in an increased anaesthetic risk [107]. During sedation, cervical spine instability may complicate the laryngotracheal intubation and tracheotomy often represents an obliged choice for avoiding fatal respiratory failure [108]. This might result in delay or cancellation of general anaesthesia for surgical interventions, such as central lines, adenotonsillectomy, cervical decompression or orthopedic interventions [109, 110]. The erratic deposits of mucopolysaccharides throughout the trachea should be taken into account when decisions to stent the airway are made. Patients should be managed by anaesthesiologists familiar with MPS who define appropriate evaluation, and also anticipate potential post-operative problems. Table 2 summarises the basic defects, main clinical features and respiratory manifestations of selected inherited metabolic diseases.

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Table 2. Basic defects, and clinical and respiratory features of selected inherited metabolic diseases

Approach to diagnosis and treatment of respiratory manifestations of inherited metabolic diseases

Diagnosis

The presentation of respiratory manifestations associated with inherited metabolic diseases differs between children and adults. Medical history should look at major presenting features, and physical examination should include vital signs, body weight and height measures, as well as upper and lower airway examination (table 3). As far as the diagnostic investigations are concerned, they should be discussed in multidisciplinary sessions including a pulmonologist, hopefully supported by physicians with special skills in the management of airway disease such as radiologists, bronchoscopists, anaesthesiologists and ear, nose and throat (ENT) specialists [107, 108, 111–113]. The choice should take into account the individual characteristics of the patient such as age and level of cooperation, as well as type and severity of respiratory manifestations.

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Table 3. Assessment of patients with inherited metabolic diseases and suspected respiratory manifestations

Chest imaging and arterial blood gas analysis are mandatory in the presence of suspected or overt respiratory manifestations, either to define the type and extent of the lesion or to document the onset of compensated (hypoxaemia alone) or uncompensated (in the presence of hypercapnia) respiratory failure. Among imaging techniques, chest radiography is the first-line examination to confirm or exclude the pulmonary involvement. Since ILD is frequent, chest HRCT, possibly using low-dose CT in children, is recommended to define the extent and severity of lung changes [114]. Table 4 summarises the major chest imaging characteristics in specific inherited metabolic diseases. Bronchoscopy and BAL can be added to the diagnostic work-up in the presence of interstitial pneumonia or segmental/lobar atelectasis [115], used to collect lower airways secretions to be cultured and/or for confirming PAP [72, 73, 82, 116]. Lung biopsy was performed in three children with recurrent severe lower airways infections of unknown aetiology, thus allowing the diagnosis of Niemann–Pick disease type B [117].

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Table 4. Major chest imaging characteristics in specific inherited metabolic diseases

Swallowing function using video fluoroscopy should be monitored closely, particularly in subjects at risk of aspiration in the event of secondary airway aspiration [118].

Spirometry, lung volume determination and carbon monoxide diffusion provide substantial information about obstructive and/or restrictive patterns and alveolar gases impairment [119], but testing is limited to cooperating subjects. Upright vital capacity has been indicated as an important marker of diaphragmatic dysfunction in adults with Pompe disease [120]. Major reduction in exercise capacity was reported in glycogenosis type I [121] or in mitochondrial disorders [122]. Therefore, exercise testing using a treadmill or cycloergometry could be performed in cooperating patients with inherited metabolic disease-associated myopathy.

In inherited metabolic diseases and suspected OSAS the assessments based upon clinical history alone are generally inadequate [105, 123, 124]. Overnight polysomnography is the first-line procedure in MPS and suspected upper airways involvement [104]. Nasal endoscopy combined with upper airway CT or magnetic resonance imaging may provide useful additional information on the site of obstruction. In a study of MPS adults and children, CT scans revealed that the retropalatal and retroglossal spaces were significantly more reduced in patients with OSAS than in controls [113]. Polysomnography and upper airway imaging appeared more abnormal in the paediatric population than in adults with MPS, suggesting that children are at higher risk of airway obstruction.

Treatment

General respiratory health maintenance therapy

In patients with inherited metabolic disease at risk of airway disease, specific interventions aimed at promoting and restoring the physiology of the airways are strongly recommended in the early phases of the disease to clear the airways, avoid infections and maintain adequate alveolar ventilation. Unfortunately, there are no controlled data from clinical trials to support the use of most of these interventions, which are generally prescribed on an empirical basis.

Accurate, daily airway toilet is the mainstay of the treatment. It includes aspiration of secretions after nasal lavage by micronised shower with saline or hypertonic saline solution. Not all patients with inherited metabolic disease will require regular daily chest physiotherapy, and the decision as to whether to prescribe it should be taken on an individual basis after considering the patient’s respiratory symptoms and signs. In the presence of hypoxaemia, oxygen should also be administered at home after monitoring transcutaneous saturation. If bacterial airway infections are demonstrated, broad spectrum antibiotics should be prescribed based on sputum or deep throat culture. Systemic steroids are sometimes used in cases of severe respiratory symptoms, but based on empirical experience rather than on clear-cut evidence [125]. Adenotonsillectomy is included within the ascending ladder of MPS treatment modalities, and is considered crucial, at least for reducing upper airway obstruction [107].

With increased survival time and current advances in mechanical ventilation techniques, respiratory specialists are increasingly seeing paediatric and adult patients with inherited metabolic disease requiring noninvasive or invasive ventilation [93, 104]. Infants with Pompe disease frequently undergo mechanical ventilation, and the gap between diagnosis and ventilator use or death is reported to be 1–2 months [126, 127]. Mellies et al. [128] applied noninvasive ventilation to eight adults with late-onset Pompe disease and respiratory failure apparent from severe restrictive lung disease, nocturnal hypoxaemia and daytime hypercapnia. Despite further decrease of vital capacity and inspiratory muscle strength, noninvasive ventilation normalised oxygen saturation during sleep, daytime carbon dioxide tensions and symptoms [128].

Continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP), in which inspired air at elevated pressure is delivered through a specially designed mask, has proved to be effective for reducing OSAS in MPS [96]. High pressure nasal CPAP and supplemental oxygen should be considered in MPS cases in whom tracheostomy would have been very difficult due to the diffuse nature of the airway involvement [129]. Unfortunately, since mechanical ventilation with or without tracheostomy may be unsuccessful, fatal respiratory failure may occur at any age [106].

In lysinuric protein intolerance, high-dose oral steroids may slow down the progression of lung disease if started early, but might not be effective in all cases [73]. Treatment of lysinuric protein intolerance-associated PAP with inhaled or subcutaneous GM-CSF has reported controversial results [82, 85, 130]. BAL has been reported to cure lysinuric protein intolerance-associated pulmonary symptoms within hours, even though frequent relapses have been described [72, 76]. Ultimately, whole lung lavage is the best way to treat symptomatic PAP [72, 131].

In Hermansky–Pudlak syndrome, the antifibrotic pirfenidone is the only symptomatic treatment that slows the progression of pulmonary fibrosis, especially in patients with residual lung function [132–134].

Treatment

Disease-specific therapy

In the past, the management of several inherited metabolic diseases was limited to support therapy of individual symptoms. The past decade has witnessed extraordinary innovation in the treatment of several inherited metabolic diseases with different approaches now available in pre-clinical and clinical testing, including enzyme replacement therapy (ERT), substrate reduction and haematopoietic stem cells transplantation [1]. More innovative strategies, such as pharmacological chaperone therapy and gene therapy, are under investigation for selected inherited metabolic diseases [135–137].

The effect of therapeutic interventions on the respiratory manifestations of specific inherited metabolic disease has been documented by several studies. A therapeutic role of BAL aimed at reducing the accumulation of abnormal metabolites within airways has been hypothesised in some inherited metabolic diseases, although its effectiveness is still under debate. In a patient with Niemann–Pick type C disease with recurrent pneumonia and chronic hypoxia, BAL significantly improved respiratory symptoms and ILD [34]. Other authors reported that the whole-lung lavage is a potentially useful modality of treatment for patients with Niemann–Pick disease type B and associated pulmonary involvement [35]. Conversely, an infant with the same disorder showed progressive respiratory failure after unilateral lung lavage, and died at age 15 months [26].

In Niemann–Pick disease type B and type C due to NPC2 gene mutation, haematopoietic stem cell transplantation can result in lung disease improvement [32, 138]. At present, the substrate reduction therapy with miglustat has been granted marketing authorisation in Europe and several other countries for specific treatment of neurological manifestations of Niemann–Pick disease. An observational study showed the efficacy of long-term treatment with miglustat in four children with Niemann–Pick disease type C to improve or prevent dysphagia and airway aspiration [118], confirming the beneficial effects on neurological disease [139].

In Gaucher disease, the effect of treatment on pulmonary disease depends on the case series and the type of Gaucher disease. In type III and I Gaucher disease, ERT causes some improvement of the respiratory manifestations including pulmonary hypertension [15, 140, 141]. Conversely, miglustat seems more effective in patients with type III Gaucher disease whose respiratory symptoms or signs did not improve after acid β-glucosidase, and in cases with pulmonary hypertension who did not respond to ERT [142–144].

ERT with agalsidase-β was found to stabilise symptoms of pulmonary Fabry disease in a female with dry, nonproductive cough and ILD, but did not improve total lung capacity due to pulmonary fibrosis [145].

Several studies of infants with Pompe disease demonstrated that early diagnosis and prompt treatment with recombinant α-glucosidase is associated with improvement of main respiratory events, consistently reducing the need of mechanical ventilation [146–148]. In particular, treatment with recombinant α-glucosidase in infants results in low risk of any type of ventilation or in reduced duration of ventilator dependence, and in a higher probability of being alive at age 36 months [146, 147]. α-glucosidase therapy also determines significant improvement of the 6-min walking test in late-onset Pompe’s disease [149, 150], and of pulmonary function even in ventilator-dependent patients [151]. Indeed, the response of respiratory function to recombinant α-glucosidase seems to be related to patients’ age and the residual pulmonary function at baseline, with better outcomes reported when treatment is started within the first 6 months of life [88, 119]. Taken together, these findings strongly suggest that early recognition of respiratory manifestations is crucial to achieve optimal therapeutic benefits for individuals with Pompe disease [119].

Some studies from our group demonstrated that the pharmacological chaperones improve the efficacy of ERT with recombinant α-glucosidase in Pompe disease, and with recombinant α-galactosidase A in Fabry disease [135, 137, 152, 153]. Improving the efficacy of ERT has great clinical relevance in Pompe disease, as it is becoming increasingly evident that a synergistic effect of these treatments may result useful in patients responding poorly to ERT, but at present there are no studies on the effects on respiratory manifestations.

ERT is used in patients with MPS type I, II and VI [154–157], and beneficial effects on lung function and OSAS have been described [158–161]. A significant increase of forced vital capacity, probably resulting from chest wall impedance improvement to lung expansion, and a decrease of the apnoea/hypopnoea index, probably due to reduced GAGs in the upper airways, were demonstrated after α-l-iduronidase in MPS I [155, 156, 162]. However, a recent chart review of MPS I found that patients receiving ERT still had a high incidence of airway problems (57%) and a failed intubation rate of 3%, while those treated early with bone marrow transplantation had lower incidence of airway complications (14%), and no failed intubations [163].

Haematopoietic stem cells transplantation is effective in MPS types I, VI and VII, as it results in a dramatic reduction of obstructive airway symptoms [164]. When the procedure is performed at <2 years of age, engraftment after transplantation results in the improvement of sleep apnoea and upper airway disease and in the preservation of hearing [112, 164–166]. It also determines lung function improvement and discontinuation of mechanical ventilation in children with type I disease who did not respond to adenotonsillectomy [112, 167]. Furthermore, the size of the oropharyngeal cavity, the appearance of the tongue and the visualisation of the larynx improve considerably after the procedure [168]. Thus, when instituted before 2 years of age, haematopoietic stem cell transplantation not only slows the progression of MPS-related respiratory disease, but also reduces the incidence of difficult airway management [112]. Table 5 summarises the effects of the most innovative therapeutic strategies in inherited metabolic diseases.

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Table 5. Effects of the most innovative therapeutic strategies on respiratory manifestations in lysosomal storage disorders

Conclusions

Over the past decades the molecular defect of several inherited metabolic diseases has been identified. New therapeutic strategies are currently available and have improved the life expectation for many patients with inherited metabolic diseases since some even offer the potential of permanent cure. Improvements in the quality and implementation of medical care for patients with inherited metabolic diseases would hopefully result in increased survival. Respiratory disease is an important issue for patients with inherited metabolic diseases. It may complicate the clinical course at any age, and therefore is the major contributor to morbidity and mortality at any age.

Appropriate care of the respiratory complications of inherited metabolic diseases is mandatory. The optimal integration of multiple skills in a team, including physicians with proven experience in the management of the inherited metabolic diseases and pulmonologists, ENT specialists, anaesthetists and radiologists, is ideal for improving the prognosis of the respiratory disease associated with inherited metabolic diseases. These specialists have an opportunity to play an integrated role in the multidisciplinary approach to the disease. Clinical suspicion, early recognition and prompt diagnosis of the respiratory disease associated to these challenging disorders is crucial, as outcomes of treatment in many cases appear time-sensitive, with better results being achieved when intervention is initiated at a younger age or before the diseases has progressed.

Footnotes

  • Conflict of interest: None declared.

  • Provenance: Submitted article, peer reviewed.

  • Received December 19, 2012.
  • Accepted January 6, 2013.
  • ©ERS 2013

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Francesca Santamaria, Silvia Montella, Virginia Mirra, Sara De Stefano, Generoso Andria, Giancarlo Parenti
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Francesca Santamaria, Silvia Montella, Virginia Mirra, Sara De Stefano, Generoso Andria, Giancarlo Parenti
European Respiratory Review Dec 2013, 22 (130) 437-453; DOI: 10.1183/09059180.00008012
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