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PURPOSE: To report a case of bilateral corneal opacities and rare spinal muscular atrophy type III (Kugelberg-Welander disease) in a galactokinase-deficiency patient.
CASE SUMMARY: A 6-year-old female presented with bilateral ground...
Galactosemia, a term that denotes the presence of galactose in the blood, is the name of rare inborn error of galactose metabolism due to a deficiency of the enzyme galactokinase...
We report a case of 15 days old newborn presenting with hypergalactosemia detected by newborn screening who had intrahepatic arterio-venous shunts with multiple pin-head sized cutaneous hemangiomas. Plasma level of...
PURPOSE: The genetic disturbance of galactosemia is expressed as a cellular deficiency of either galactose-1-phosphate uridyltransferase(GALT) or galactokinase(GALK) or UDP galactose 4-epimerase(GALE). To find-out the pattern of galactosemia in Korea,...
Galactosemia is a group of inherited enzyme deficiencies characterized by increase in the blood galactose levels. This condition may be associated with deficiencies of galactose-1-phosphate uridyl transferase, galactokinase, or uridine...
BACKGROUND: A newborn screening (NBS) program has been utilized to detect asymptomatic newborns with inherited metabolic diseases (IMDs). There have been some bottlenecks such as false-positives and imprecision in the...