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Gaucher's disease type II

info · Genetic · ICD-10: E75.2

A Gaucher's disease characterized by rapid neurologic deterioration with cranial nerve and extrapyramidal tract involvement that has_material_basis_in homozygous or compound heterozygous mutation in the GBA1 gene on chromosome 1q22.

Signs and symptoms

  • Failure to thrive
  • Global developmental delay
  • Hypertonia
  • Progressive neurologic deterioration
  • Recurrent aspiration pneumonia
  • Strabismus
  • Stridor
  • Bulbar signs
  • Seizure
  • Rigidity

Also known as: GD II; GD2; Gaucher Disease, Acute Neuronopathic Type; Infantile Cerebral Gaucher Disease