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Pompe disease

Disease PolysyndactylyPoor feeding in infants

Pompe Disease Causes, Symptoms and Treatment and Related Disorders
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Pompe Disease
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What is Pompe disease?
Pompe disease is an inherited disorder caused by the buildup of a complex sugar called glycogen in the body's cells.

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The infantile form of Pompe disease starts before the age of 3 months with major hypotonia, sucking and swallowing difficulties, hypertrophic cardiomyopathy and progressive hepatomegaly.

Acid Maltase Deficiency see Pompe disease
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Acid maltase deficiency (AMD), also known as Pompe disease, is a genetically inherited disease that affects muscle function. Inherited diseases are passed on from parents to a child.

Acid maltase deficiency, also called Pompe disease, is a non-sex linked recessive genetic disorder that is the most serious of the glycogen storage diseases affecting muscle tissue.

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Maroteaux-Larny disease-affects the skin, bones, liver, and spleen
Niemann-Pick disease-affects the spleen, liver, and lungs
Pompe disease-affects the liver, heart, and muscle tissue
Tay-Sachs disease-affects the brain ...

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Kishnani PS, Hwu WL, Mandel H, et al; A retrospective, multinational, multicenter study on the natural history of infantile-onset Pompe disease. J Pediatr. 2006 May;148(5):671-676. [abstract] ...

See also: Deficiency, Storage disease, Glycogen Storage Disease, Symptom, Sclerosis

Disease PolysyndactylyPoor feeding in infants

 
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