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Cholesteryl ester storage disease: protean presentations of lysosomal acid lipase deficiency.
Journal of pediatric gastroenterology and nutrition - 1 Jun 2013
Zhang Bingnan, Porto Anthony F
Abstract excerpt
OBJECTIVE: LIPA gene mutations result in deficiency of lysosomal acid lipase and present phenotypically as Wolman disease or cholesteryl ester storage disease (CESD) depending on the level of deficiency. Patients with CESD may often be misdiagnosed because symptoms may be nonspecific. Symptoms may present in infancy if there is complete loss of lysosomal acid lipase or in early childhood or adulthood when there...
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