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Enzyme replacement therapy and bony changes in Egyptian paediatric Gaucher disease patients.
Journal of inherited metabolic disease - 1 Feb 2006
El-Beshlawy A, Ragab L, Youssry I, Yakout K, El-Kiki H, Eid K, Mansour I M, Abd El-Hamid S, Yang M, Mistry P K
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: In Gaucher disease, the infiltration of the bone marrow by glucocerebroside-laden macrophages (Gaucher cells) triggers a diverse pattern of skeletal disease that results in crippling complications. Reliable ascertainment of the severity and pattern of skeletal disease is essential to determine disease status and the response to enzyme replacement therapy (ERT). Although there is ample documentation of...
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