Fabry disease

DP Germain - Orphanet journal of rare diseases, 2010 - Springer
Fabry disease (FD) is a progressive, X-linked inherited disorder of glycosphingolipid
metabolism due to deficient or absent lysosomal α-galactosidase A activity. FD is pan-ethnic …

Aetiological diagnosis of ischaemic stroke in young adults

JM Ferro, AR Massaro, JL Mas - The Lancet Neurology, 2010 - thelancet.com
Despite improvements in diagnosis and treatment, ischaemic stroke in young adults remains
a catastrophic event from the patients' perspective. Stroke can cause death, disability, and …

Acute cerebrovascular disease in the young: the Stroke in Young Fabry Patients study

A Rolfs, F Fazekas, U Grittner, M Dichgans, P Martus… - Stroke, 2013 - Am Heart Assoc
Background and Purpose—Strokes have especially devastating implications if they occur
early in life; however, only limited information exists on the characteristics of acute …

A systematic review on screening for Fabry disease: prevalence of individuals with genetic variants of unknown significance

L Van der Tol, BE Smid, B Poorthuis… - Journal of medical …, 2014 - jmg.bmj.com
Screening for Fabry disease (FD) reveals a high prevalence of individuals with α-
galactosidase A (GLA) genetic variants of unknown significance (GVUS). These individuals …

Cerebrovascular involvement in Fabry disease: current status of knowledge

E Kolodny, A Fellgiebel, MJ Hilz, K Sims, P Caruso… - Stroke, 2015 - Am Heart Assoc
among young patients with stroke, 16 there are no reports on the frequency of silent brain
infarcts in FD. Aseptic meningitis can occur concomitantly in Fabry patients who have had …

Fabry disease: a review of current management strategies

A Mehta, M Beck, F Eyskens, C Feliciani… - … Journal of Medicine, 2010 - academic.oup.com
Fabry disease is an X-linked inherited condition due to the absence or reduction of α-
galactosidase activity in lysosomes, that results in accumulation of globotriaosylceramide …

Fabry disease: prevalence of affected males and heterozygotes with pathogenic GLA mutations identified by screening renal, cardiac and stroke clinics, 1995–2017

D Doheny, R Srinivasan, S Pagant, B Chen… - Journal of medical …, 2018 - jmg.bmj.com
Background Fabry Disease (FD), an X linked lysosomal storage disease due to pathogenic
α-galactosidase A (GLA) mutations, results in two major subtypes, the early-onset Type 1 …

Functional characterisation of alpha-galactosidase a mutations as a basis for a new classification system in fabry disease

J Lukas, AK Giese, A Markoff, U Grittner… - PLoS …, 2013 - journals.plos.org
Fabry disease (FD) is an X-linked hereditary defect of glycosphingolipid storage caused by
mutations in the gene encoding the lysosomal hydrolase α-galactosidase A (GLA, α-gal A) …

Fabry's disease

R El-Abassi, D Singhal, JD England - Journal of the neurological sciences, 2014 - Elsevier
Fabry's disease is an X-linked lysosomal storage disorder caused by abnormalities in the
GLA gene, which leads to a deficiency in α-galactosidase A. The abnormal accumulation of …

Fabry nephropathy: indications for screening and guidance for diagnosis and treatment by the European Renal Best Practice

W Terryn, P Cochat, R Froissart, A Ortiz… - Nephrology dialysis …, 2013 - academic.oup.com
Fabry disease (FD) is an X-linked disorder of glycosphingolipid catabolism resulting in the
accumulation of glycolipids including globotriaosylceramide in cells of various tissues …