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Clinical and genetic studies of five fatal cases of Japanese Gaucher disease type 1.
Acta paediatrica Japonica : Overseas edition - 1 Jun 1996
Ida H, Rennert O M, Ito T, Maekawa K, Eto Y
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Five fatal cases of Japanese patients with type 1 Gaucher disease were studied. The causes of death included hemorrhage secondary to esophageal varices (two cases), respiratory distress (one case), hepatic failure (one case) and postoperative sepsis (one case). All of the patients had previous splenectomies, four patients had bone involvement and hepatic cirrhosis. The identified Gaucher genotypes were...
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