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Congenital generalized lipodystrophy (Berardinelli-Seip syndrome)
Congenital generalized lipodystrophy [Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man (OMIM) 269700] is an extremely rare autosomal recessive disorder reported initially by Berardinelli (3) and Seip (4). It affects all ethnic groups. Assuming that the published reports of approximately 120 affected subjects during 44 years reflect roughly 25% ascertainment, its prevalence is estimated to be less than 1 case in 12 million people.
Acquired generalized lipodystrophy (Lawrence syndrome)
Acquired generalized lipodystrophy was initially reported by Ziegler (43); subsequently, Lawrence (44) provided a detailed clinical description and autopsy findings in a 26-year-old woman. Lawrence proposed five major diagnostic criteria: generalized absence of fat, insulin resistant diabetes mellitus, absence of ketosis, elevated basal metabolic rate, and severe hyperlipidemia with hepatomegaly (44). These criteria, however, fail to distinguish the acquired variety from the congenital variety
Differential diagnosis of lipodystrophies
Patients with lipodystrophies should be differentiated from patients with SHORT syndrome [short stature, hyperextensibility of joints, ocular depression, Reiger (ocular and dental) anomaly, and teething delay; OMIM 269880], some of whom lose subcutaneous fat from the face, upper extremities, chest, and abdomen; patients with Werner syndrome (OMIM 277700), who have thin limbs but whose subcutaneous fat is well preserved; patients with neonatal progeroid syndrome (Wiedemann-Rautenstrauch
Cosmetic management
Cosmetic management of patients with lipodystrophy involves facial reconstruction with free flaps, transposition of facial muscle, and silicone or other implants in the cheeks. In some patients with acquired partial lipodystrophy, adipose tissue transplantation from the abdomen or hip to the face is not successful, but in others it lasts for several years (personal experience, 96, 97, 98). Several of my patients with familial partial lipodystrophies have undergone liposuction or lipectomy for
Acknowledgements
The author is indebted to Dr. Daniel W. Foster for introducing me to the syndromes of lipodystrophies; to Dr. Foster and Dr. David Hillis for critical review of the manuscript; to Dr. Scott M. Grundy for his continued support and encouragement; Dr. Anne Bowcock for genetic studies; Drs. James Fleckenstein and Ronald M. Peshock for MRI studies; Dr. Franklin Vuitch for histopathology studies; Drs. Manisha Chandalia and Dali Chen for clinical evaluation of patients; Drs. James Stray-Gundersen and
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