Screening for lysosomal diseases in a selected pediatric population: the case of Gaucher disease and acid sphingomyelinase deficiency

Background GD and ASMD are lysosomal storage disorders that enter into differential diagnosis due to the possible overlap in their clinical manifestations. The availability of safe and effective enzymatic therapies has recently led many investigators to develop and validate new screening tools, such as algorithms, for the diagnosis of LSDs where the lack of disease awareness or failure to implement newborn screening results in a delayed diagnosis. Results the proposed algorithm allows for the clinical and biochemical differentiation between GD and ASMD. It is based on enzyme activity assessed on dried blood spots by multiplexed tandem mass spectrometry (MS/MS) coupled to specific biomarkers as second-tier analysis. Conclusions we believe that this method will provide a simple, convenient and sensitive tool for the screening of a selected population that can be used by pediatricians and other specialists (such as pediatric hematologists and pediatric hepatologists) often engaged in diagnosing these disorders..

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2023

Erschienen:

2023

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:18

Enthalten in:

Orphanet journal of rare diseases - 18(2023), 1 vom: 21. Juli

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Di Rocco, Maja [VerfasserIn]
Vici, Carlo Dionisi [VerfasserIn]
Burlina, Alberto [VerfasserIn]
Venturelli, Francesco [VerfasserIn]
Fiumara, Agata [VerfasserIn]
Fecarotta, Simona [VerfasserIn]
Donati, Maria Alice [VerfasserIn]
Spada, Marco [VerfasserIn]
Concolino, Daniela [VerfasserIn]
Pession, Andrea [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Acid Sphingomyelinase Deficiency
Gaucher Disease
Lysosomal Storage Diseases
Selected population screening
Splenomegaly

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© The Author(s) 2023

doi:

10.1186/s13023-023-02797-0

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OLC2144607974