Article
[Fabry disease--a diagnostic and therapeutic challenge].
Tidsskrift for den Norske laegeforening : tidsskrift for praktisk medicin, ny raekke - 21 Apr 2005
Houge Gunnar, Skarbøvik Alv Johan
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BACKGROUND: Fabry disease, unlike most other metabolic diseases, is prone to familiar and regional clustering because of X-linked inheritance and normal fertility in affected men. Affected individuals can be offered intravenous enzyme replacement therapy. MATERIALS AND METHODS: In two counties in western Norway there are 41 affected individuals, giving a minimum prevalence of the disease of 1 in 17,000. The...
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