 Wolman Disease
"Wolman Disease" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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The severe infantile form of inherited lysosomal lipid storage diseases due to deficiency of acid lipase (STEROL ESTERASE). It is characterized by the accumulation of neutral lipids, particularly CHOLESTEROL ESTERS in leukocytes, fibroblasts, and hepatocytes. It is also known as Wolman's xanthomatosis and is an allelic variant of CHOLESTEROL ESTER STORAGE DISEASE.
| Descriptor ID |
D015223
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| MeSH Number(s) |
C16.320.565.398.641.201.500 C16.320.565.595.201.500 C16.614.947 C18.452.584.687.201.500 C18.452.648.398.641.201.500 C18.452.648.595.201.500
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| Concept/Terms |
Wolman Disease- Wolman Disease
- Disease, Wolman
- Xanthomatosis, Wolman's
- Wolman's Xanthomatosis
- Xanthomatosis, Wolman
- Xanthomatosis, Wolmans
- Wolman's Disease
- Disease, Wolman's
- Wolmans Disease
- Xanthomatosis, Familial
- Familial Xanthomatoses
- Familial Xanthomatosis
- Xanthomatoses, Familial
- Acid Cholesteryl Ester Hydrolase Deficiency, Wolman Type
- Liposomal Acid Lipase Deficiency, Wolman Type
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| 2022 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Wolman Disease" by people in Profiles over the past ten years.
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Hannah WB, Ryan K, Pendyal S, Burrow TA, Harley SE, Cordell M, McCall CM, Mavis AM, Tan QK, Kishnani PS. Clinical insights from Wolman disease: Evaluating infantile hepatosplenomegaly. Am J Med Genet A. 2022 11; 188(11):3364-3368.
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