Modified placental human glucocerebrosidase (alglucerase) and recombinant glucocerebrosidase (imiglucerase) are effective means of treating Type 1 Gaucher's disease. Amelioration of hepatosplenomegaly and of haematological manifestations is usually apparent within 6 months. Bone disease responds more slowly but within several years improvement is evident in most patients. Analysis of a large bo...

Direct enzyme replacement therapy (ERT) has been introduced as a means to treat a number of rare, complex genetic conditions associated with lysosomal dysfunction. Gaucher disease was the first for which this therapy was applied and remains the prototypical example. Although ERT using recombinant lysosomal enzymes has been shown to be effective in altering the clinical course of Gaucher disease...

Sir, Anderson-Fabry disease is a metabolic lysosomal storage disease caused by a deficiency of the enzyme a-galactosidase A and inherited as an X-linked recessive trait. The progressive accumulation of glycosphingolipids (globotriaosylceramide, GB3) in blood, vessels and cells from several organs and tissues causes significant multi-systemic damage in homozygous males and in carrier females. Fo...

BACKGROUND The variants of neuronopathic Gaucher disease may be viewed as a clinical phenotypic continuum divided into acute and chronic forms. The chronic neuronopathic form of Gaucher disease is characterized by a later onset of neurological symptoms and protracted neurological and visceral involvement. The first-choice treatment for nonneuronopathic Gaucher disease is enzyme replacement ther...

4. Cook AL, Kishnani PS, Carboni MP, Kanter RJ, Chen YT, Ansong AK, et al. Ambulatory electrocardiogram analysis in infants treated with recombinant human acid alpha-glucosidase enzyme replacement therapy for Pompe disease. Genet Med. 2006;8:313–7. 5. Ansong AK, Li JS, Nozik-Grayck E, Ing R, Kravitz RM, Idriss SF, et al. Electrocardiographic response to enzyme replacement therapy for Pompe dise...

Pompe disease (PD), also known as “glycogen storage disease type II (OMIM # 232300)” is a rare autosomal recessive disorder characterized by progressive glycogen accumulation in cellular lysosomes. It ultimately leads to cellular damage. Infantile-onset Pompe disease (IOPD) is the most severe type of this disease and is characterized by severe hypertrophic cardiomyopathy and generalized hypoton...