Gaucher disease with communicating hydrocephalus and cardiac involvement

Clinical Cardiology

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Cindik, N ^a   Ozcay, F ^a   Suren D ^a   Akkoyun, I ^a   Gokdemir M ^a   Varan, B ^a   Alehan, F ^a   Ozbek, N ^a   Tokel, K ^a  

^a BASKENT UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

D409H; Gaucher disease; Hydrocephalus; Valvular calcification

Indexed keywords

BETA GLUCOSIDASE;

ADOLESCENT; ANAMNESIS; AORTA VALVE REGURGITATION; AORTA VALVE REPLACEMENT; AORTA VALVE STENOSIS; ARTICLE; BONE MARROW BIOPSY; CASE REPORT; COMMUNICATING HYDROCEPHALUS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORNEA OPACITY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GAUCHER DISEASE; GENE MUTATION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LIVER BIOPSY; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; MITRAL VALVE REGURGITATION; MITRAL VALVE REPLACEMENT; MITRAL VALVE STENOSIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; VALVULAR HEART DISEASE;

ADOLESCENT; AORTIC VALVE; CALCINOSIS; FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; GAUCHER DISEASE; HEART VALVE DISEASES; HUMANS; HYDROCEPHALUS; MITRAL VALVE;

EID: 74949123118     PISSN: 01609289     EISSN: 19328737     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/clc.20348     Document Type: Article

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