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Purine nucleoside phosphorylase deficiency with fatal course in two sisters.
European journal of pediatrics - 1 Mar 2010
Aytekin Caner, Dogu Figen, Tanir Gonul, Guloglu Deniz, Santisteban Ines, Hershfield Michael S, Ikinciogullari Aydan
Abstract excerpt
Purine nucleoside phosphorylase (PNP) deficiency is a rare combined immunodeficiency disorder presenting with clinically recurrent infections, failure to thrive, various neurological disorders, malignancies, and autoimmune diseases. Here, we report two sisters with a fatal course of PNP deficiency due to delay in diagnosis. The first patient developed a liver abscess by Aspergillus fumigatus and the second...
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