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Fatal infantile cardiac glycogenosis with phosphorylase kinase deficiency and a mutation in the gamma2-subunit of AMP-activated protein kinase.
Pediatric research - 1 Oct 2007
Akman Hasan O, Sampayo James N, Ross Fiona A, Scott John W, Wilson Gregory, Benson Lee, Bruno Claudio, Shanske Sara, Hardie D Grahame, Dimauro Salvatore
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A 10-wk-old infant girl with severe hypertrophy of the septal and atrial walls by cardiac ultrasound, developed progressive ventricular wall thickening and died of aspiration pneumonia at 5 mo of age. Postmortem examination revealed ventricular hypertrophy and massive atrial wall thickening due to glycogen accumulation. A skeletal muscle biopsy showed increased free glycogen and decreased activity of...
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