Kanako Higashi, Yuri Sonoda, Noriyuki Kaku, Fumihiko Fujii, Fumiya Yamashita, Sooyoung Lee, Vlad Tocan, Go Ebihara, Wakato Matsuoka, Kenichi Tetsuhara, Motoshi Sonoda, Pin Fee Chong, Yuichi Mushimoto, Kanako Kojima-Ishii, Masataka Ishimura, Yuhki Koga, Atsuhisa Fukuta, Nana Akagi Tsuchihashi, Yoshikazu Kikuchi, Takahito Karashima, Takaaki Sawada, Taeko Hotta, Makoto Yoshimitsu, Hideyuki Terazono, Tatsuro Tajiri, Takashi Nakagawa, Yasunari Sakai, Kimitoshi Nakamura, Shouichi Ohga
Gaucher disease (GD) is a lysosomal storage disorder caused by a deficiency in the GBA1-encoded enzyme, β-glucocerebrosidase. Enzyme replacement therapy is ineffective for neuronopathic Gaucher disease (nGD). High-dose ambroxol has been administered as an alternative treatment for a group of patients with nGD. However, little is known about the clinical indication and the long-term outcome of patients after ambroxol therapy. We herein report a case of a female patient who presented with a progressive disease of GD type 2 from 11 months of age and had the pathogenic variants of p...
April 2024: Molecular Genetics & Genomic Medicine