Conditions / Genetic

Zellweger syndrome

info · Genetic · ICD-10: E71.510

A peroxisomal biogenesis disorder that is characterized by severe neurologic dysfunction, craniofacial abnormalities, and liver dysfunction, and biochemically by the absence of peroxisome and that has_material_basis_in autosomal recessive inheritance of a muta

A peroxisomal biogenesis disorder that is characterized by severe neurologic dysfunction, craniofacial abnormalities, and liver dysfunction, and biochemically by the absence of peroxisome and that has_material_basis_in autosomal recessive inheritance of a mutation in the peroxisome biogenesis factor (PEX) genes.

Medications that may treat it

cholic acid

Also known as: cerebrohepatorenal syndrome; congenital iron overload