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Enzyme therapy and immune response in relation to CRIM status: the Dutch experience in classic infantile Pompe disease.
Journal of inherited metabolic disease - 1 Mar 2015
van Gelder Carin M, Hoogeveen-Westerveld Marianne, Kroos Marian A, Plug Iris, van der Ploeg Ans T, Reuser Arnold J J
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Enzyme-replacement therapy (ERT) in Pompe disease--an inherited metabolic disorder caused by acid α-glucosidase deficiency and characterized in infants by generalized muscle weakness and cardiomyopathy--can be complicated by immune responses. Infants that do not produce any endogenous acid α-glucosidase, so-called CRIM-negative patients, reportedly develop a strong response. We report the clinical...
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