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Clinical Biochemistry

Volume 24, Issue 2, April 1991, Pages 169-178
Clinical Biochemistry

Clinical
Biochemical diagnosis of hepatic glycogen storage diseases: 20 years French experience

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French experience of 242 cases of liver glycogenoses is reported. Screening tests based on serum biochemical data and glucagon tolerance tests are briefly reviewed. The diagnosis of types I glycogen storage disease (GSD) was ascertained in 73 patients' liver biopsies by measurement of glycogen content and by studying the glucose-6-phosphatase system. Liver biopsies were also required at the beginning for the diagnosis of other hepatic GSDs; later on, the possibilities of diagnosis using peripheral blood cells were investigated. Eighty-four cases of type III GSD were confirmed by measurement of debranching enzyme activity and glycogen content using either liver biopsies (78 cases) and/or erythrocytes (37 cases); enzyme determination was also performed in leukocytes and/or fibroblasts for 18 patients. Twenty-four cases of type VI GSD underwent liver biopsies, and the diagnosis could be confirmed using mononuclear or polymorphonuclear cells for 11 of these patients. Sixty-one patients were identified as type IX GSD; phosphorylase kinase deficiency was demonstrated in erythrocytes for all patients, and a liver biopsy was analyzed for 26 of these cases. From this experience, the possibilities of diagnosis of liver GSD using peripheral blood cells are emphasized.

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