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Acute psychosis in an adolescent with undiagnosed homocystinuria.

UNLABELLED: Homocystinuria due to cystathionine-β-synthase deficiency (CBS deficiency) usually presents with ectopia lentis, myopia, intellectual disability, skeletal anomalies resembling Marfan syndrome, and thromboembolic events. Whereas neurodevelopment impairments have been often described in untreated homocystinuria adult patients, acute psychosis has rarely been reported as a presenting symptom of the disease. Here, we describe a 17-year-old girl affected by CBS deficiency presenting acute onset of visual hallucinations, behavioral perseverance, psychomotor hyperactivity, and affective inappropriateness. Ectopia lentis, diagnosed several years before, didn't have been considered as possible sign of a metabolic disorder. Psychotic symptoms were unresponsive to the conventional antipsychotic drugs and relieved after pyridoxine and folic acid treatment.

CONCLUSION: A diagnosis of homocystinuria due to CBS deficiency should be considered in patients presenting, as target signs, ectopia lentis with or without learning difficulties, and should also be taken into account as a potentially treatable cause of acute psychosis in childhood and adolescence.

WHAT IS KNOWN: • Homocystinuria frequently present with ectopia lentis, myopia, cognitive impairment, Marfan-like phenotype, osteoporosis, cerebrovascular, or cardiac thrombosis. • Acute psychosis has rarely been reported as a presenting symptom of the disease.

WHAT IS NEW: • The complete psychotic symptoms' remission with pharmacological doses of pyridoxine and folic acid, without antipsychotic drugs.

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