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  • Title: Late-onset Pompe's disease.
    Author: Teener JW.
    Journal: Semin Neurol; 2012 Nov; 32(5):506-11. PubMed ID: 23677658.
    Abstract:
    Glycogen storage disease type II, also known as Pompe's disease or acid maltase deficiency, is caused by a deficiency in acid α-glucosidase. Severe enzyme deficiency results in infantile Pompe's disease with multiorgan involvement; a partial deficiency produces a less severe phenotype mainly consisting of a myopathy, with a later age of onset. Treatment is now available with intravenous infusion of recombinant acid α-glucosidase. Such treatment results in marked improvement in patients with infantile Pompe's disease, and modest improvement or stabilization in patients with late-onset Pompe's disease.
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