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Cholesteryl ester storage disease: an easily missed diagnosis in oligosymptomatic children.
Zeitschrift fur Gastroenterologie - 1 Oct 2013
Freudenberg F, Bufler P, Ensenauer R, Lohse P, Koletzko S
Abstract excerpt
Cholesteryl ester storage disease (CESD) is a rare, autosomal recessively inherited disorder resulting from deficient activity of lysosomal acid lipase (LAL). LAL is the key enzyme hydrolyzing cholesteryl esters and triglycerides stored in lysosomes after LDL receptor-mediated endocytosis. Mutations within the LIPA gene locus on chromosome 10q23.2-q23.3 may result either in the always fatal Wolman disease, where...
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