Late-onset Pompe disease with complicated intracranial aneurysm: a Chinese case report.

نویسندگان

  • Bin Zhang
  • Yuying Zhao
  • Junling Liu
  • Ling Li
  • Jingli Shan
  • Dandan Zhao
  • Chuanzhu Yan
چکیده

Pompe disease is a rare autosomal recessive hereditary disease caused by genetic defects of acid maltase. This disease could be divided into two forms: infantile and late-onset, which mainly affect cardiac, respiratory, and skeletal muscle systems. Late-onset patients mainly show symptoms of skeletal muscle involvement, but recent reports have found that the central nervous system was also affected in some patients. Herein, we report a case of a female, adolescent-onset Pompe patient, who was diagnosed with complicated intracranial aneurysm in adulthood.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Neuropsychiatric disease and treatment

دوره 12  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2016