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Wolman disease

Wolman disease is an infantile-onset autosomal recessive disorder which is caused by mutations of the LIPA gene. This enzyme is an acid lipase. It catalyzes the cleavage of cholesterol esters in lysosomes. When deficient those ester accumulate and cause tissue and organ damage predominantly in liver and adrenal glands. Patients will not survive the first year unless treated by hematopeotic stem cell transplantation.

Management

For therapy Kanuma® (sebelipase alfa) is available.

Systematic

Lysosomal storage disease
Chediak-Higashi syndrome
Cystinosis
Fabry disease
Infantile sialic acid storage disorder
Lysosomal acid lipase deficiency
Salla disease
Wolman disease
LIPA

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Sloan HR et al. (1972) Enzyme deficiency in cholesteryl ester storage idisease.

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None (1971) Histochemical detection of the enzyme deficiency in blood films in Wolman's disease.

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Lake BD et al. (1970) Wolman's disease: deficiency of E600-resistant acid esterase activity with storage of lipids in lysosomes.

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Patrick AD et al. (1969) Deficiency of an acid lipase in Wolman's disease.

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Koch G et al. (1981) Assignment of LIPA, associated with human acid lipase deficiency, to human chromosome 10 and comparative assignment to mouse chromosome 19.

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Hoeg JM et al. (1984) Cholesteryl ester storage disease and Wolman disease: phenotypic variants of lysosomal acid cholesteryl ester hydrolase deficiency.

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CROCKER AC et al. (1965) WOLMAN'S DISEASE: THREE NEW PATIENTS WITH A RECENTLY DESCRIBED LIPIDOSIS.

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Desai PK et al. (1987) Cholesteryl ester storage disease: pathologic changes in an affected fetus.

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Klima H et al. (1993) A splice junction mutation causes deletion of a 72-base exon from the mRNA for lysosomal acid lipase in a patient with cholesteryl ester storage disease.

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Anderson RA et al. (1993) In situ localization of the genetic locus encoding the lysosomal acid lipase/cholesteryl esterase (LIPA) deficient in Wolman disease to chromosome 10q23.2-q23.3.

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Cagle PT et al. (1986) Pulmonary hypertension in an 18-year-old girl with cholesteryl ester storage disease (CESD)

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OMIM.ORG article

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Orphanet article

Orphanet ID 75233 external link
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Wikipedia article

Wikipedia EN (Lysosomal_acid_lipase_deficiency) external link
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