Severe cardiac involvement in Gaucher type IIIC: a case report and review of the literature.

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Gaucher disease is an autosomal-recessive lysosomal storage disease characterised by the accumulation of glucocerebroside in macrophages; it is caused by mutations in glucocerebrosidase gene-1 in many organ tissues such as the liver, spleen, and bone marrow. Its different clinical subtypes, according to the presence and severity of neurological symptoms, are as follows: type I, non-neuronopathic (95%); type II,...

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