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The pathogenesis and treatment of acid sphingomyelinase-deficient Niemann-Pick disease.
Journal of inherited metabolic disease - 1 Oct 2007
Schuchman E H
Abstract excerpt
Patients with types A and B Niemann-Pick disease (NPD) have an inherited deficiency of acid sphingomyelinase (ASM) activity. The clinical spectrum of this disorder ranges from the infantile, neurological form that results in death by 3 years of age (type A NPD) to the non-neurological form (type B NPD) that is compatible with survival into adulthood. Intermediate cases also have been reported, and the disease is...
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