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Muscle biochemical and pathological diagnosis in Pompe disease.

Yoshihiko SaitoKimitoshi NakamuraTokiko FukudaHideo SugieShinichiro HayashiSatoru NoguchiIchizo Nishino
Published in: Journal of neurology, neurosurgery, and psychiatry (2022)
Muscle pathology is an accurate method to diagnose Pompe disease. It is unlikely that a significant number of patients with Pompe disease are overlooked. Pathological variants were rare, and the majority carried a pseudodeficiency allele, which further supports our conclusion.
Keyphrases
  • late onset
  • replacement therapy
  • skeletal muscle
  • copy number
  • mass spectrometry
  • smoking cessation