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Nine Cases of Sphingomyelin Lipidosis, a New Variant in Spanish-American ChildrenJuvenile Variant of Niemann-Pick Disease With Foamy and Sea-Blue Histiocytes
David A. Wenger, PhD;
Gary Barth, MD;
John H. Githens, MD
Am J Dis Child. 1977;131(9):955-961.
Abstract
• We describe nine Spanish-American children from five families with an unusual hereditary lipid storage disease. The family origins were in two small southern Colorado towns. The clinical course varied, but all of the children were found to bruise easily and to have splenomegaly, while most had hepatomegaly. Postnatal jaundice and hepatitis occurred in four. Impairment of vertical gaze and intellectual and neurologic deterioration occurred in most of the patients, with the onset of the disease, usually in childhood. The bone marrow in all patients examined contained both foamy and sea-blue histiocytes. Sphingomyelinase levels in skin fibroblast cultures were greatly decreased in seven of the eight cases evaluated. It is believed that these patients have a sphingomyelin lipidosis and represent a variant of the Niemann-Pick disease. Clinical and enzymatic findings are compared with those of other cases in the literature.
(Am J Dis Child 131:955-961, 1977)
Author Affiliations
From the Department of Pediatrics, University of Colorado Medical Center, Denver.
Footnotes
Reprint requests to Department of Pediatrics, Box C233, University of Colorado Medical Center, Denver, CO 80262 (Dr Wenger).
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