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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
4
pubmed:dateCreated
1999-12-6
pubmed:abstractText
A 36-year-old woman was admitted for hepatosplenomegaly and anemia. Bone marrow cytology showed "sea-blue histiocytes", vacuolated macrophages and plasma cells. As primary liver disease, malignancy or hematologic disorders were excluded, and plasma chitotriosidase activity was increased 27-fold over control, the presence of a lysosomal storage disease was suspected. Biochemical analysis of skin fibroblasts revealed normal glucocerebrosidase and sphingomyelinase activity, but lipid analysis showed a more than 15-fold accumulation of cholesterol esters within the cells. The activity of lysosomal acid lipase (LAL) in fibroblast homogenates was decreased to 12% of control subjects. Mutational analysis of the patient's blood showed the homozygous G-->A mutation at position -1 of the exon 8 splice donor site (E8SJM-allele) known for adult cholesteryl ester storage disease (CESD); the polymorphic background was that of the complex haplotype -6Thr, 2Gly, 894 G-->A. Based on clinical, laboratory, cytological and and biochemical findings, CESD can clearly be separated from other more frequent inherited lysosomal storage diseases, e.g. atypical forms of Gaucher disease.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Oct
pubmed:issn
0168-8278
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
31
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
741-6
pubmed:dateRevised
2006-11-15
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:10551400-Adult, pubmed-meshheading:10551400-Anemia, pubmed-meshheading:10551400-Cholesterol Ester Storage Disease, pubmed-meshheading:10551400-DNA, Recombinant, pubmed-meshheading:10551400-Diagnosis, Differential, pubmed-meshheading:10551400-Exons, pubmed-meshheading:10551400-Female, pubmed-meshheading:10551400-Gaucher Disease, pubmed-meshheading:10551400-Hepatomegaly, pubmed-meshheading:10551400-Hexosaminidases, pubmed-meshheading:10551400-Homozygote, pubmed-meshheading:10551400-Humans, pubmed-meshheading:10551400-Isoenzymes, pubmed-meshheading:10551400-Lipase, pubmed-meshheading:10551400-Lipidoses, pubmed-meshheading:10551400-Lipodystrophy, pubmed-meshheading:10551400-Lysosomes, pubmed-meshheading:10551400-Mesentery, pubmed-meshheading:10551400-Mutation, pubmed-meshheading:10551400-Splenomegaly
pubmed:year
1999
pubmed:articleTitle
Hepatosplenomegalic lipidosis: what unless Gaucher? Adult cholesteryl ester storage disease (CESD) with anemia, mesenteric lipodystrophy, increased plasma chitotriosidase activity and a homozygous lysosomal acid lipase -1 exon 8 splice junction mutation.
pubmed:affiliation
Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Infectious Diseases, Heinrich-Heine-University, Düsseldorf, Germany.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Case Reports