The natural history of type B Niemann-Pick disease: Results from a 10-year longitudinal study

Pediatrics

Volumn 114, Issue 6, 2004, Pages

  Wasserstein, Melissa P ^a,b   Desnick, Robert J ^a   Schuchman, Edward H ^a   Hossain, Sabera ^a   Wallenstein, Sylvan ^a   Lamm, Carin ^a   McGovern, Margaret M ^a  

^a MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b MOUNT SINAI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Acid sphingomyelinase; Lysosomal storage disease; Natural history; Niemann Pick

Indexed keywords

AMINOTRANSFERASE; BILIRUBIN; CARBON MONOXIDE; LIPID; LIVER ENZYME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; ATHEROGENESIS; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; GENOTYPE PHENOTYPE CORRELATION; HEMATOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; HEPATOSPLENOMEGALY; HOMOZYGOTE; HUMAN; HYPERSPLENISM; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LEUKOPENIA; LIPID ANALYSIS; LIVER DYSFUNCTION; LIVER FUNCTION; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; LUNG DIFFUSION CAPACITY; LUNG FUNCTION; MALE; NIEMANN PICK DISEASE; ORGAN SIZE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPLEEN; SPLENOMEGALY; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; BLOOD; BLOOD CELL COUNT; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; LIVER; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHENOTYPE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RESPIRATORY FUNCTION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BLOOD CELL COUNT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DISEASE PROGRESSION; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; HYPERSPLENISM; LEUKOPENIA; LIPIDS; LIVER; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NIEMANN-PICK DISEASES; PHENOTYPE; RESPIRATORY PHYSIOLOGY; SPLENOMEGALY; THROMBOCYTOPENIA;

EID: 16644401487     PISSN: 00314005     EISSN: 00314005     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1542/peds.2004-0887     Document Type: Article

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