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Isolation of Neonatal Extrahepatic Cholangiocytes
Published on: June 5, 2014
Neonatal cholestasis and Niemann-pick type C disease: A literature review
L López de Frutos1, J J Cebolla2, I de Castro-Orós3
1GIIS-012. Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria Aragón (IIS Aragón), Unidad de Investigación Traslacional, Hospital Universitario Miguel Servet, Zaragoza 50009, Spain; Fundación para el Estudio y la Terapéutica de la Enfermedad de Gaucher y otras lisosomales (FEETEG) Zaragoza 50009, Spain.
Background:
Neonatal cholestasis (NC) is one of the most serious diseases in newborns and infants and results from metabolic disorders, such as Niemann-Pick type C (NPC), among other causes.
Objective:
We evaluated the incidence of NPC in our NC plus lysosomal storage disease (LSD) suspicious neonates and infants series.
Methods:
The study included children (≤3 years old) with a history of NC together with a suspicion of LSD, referred from Spanish Hospitals during the period 2011-2020. Screening for NPC was done by plasma biomarker assay (chitotriosidase activity and 7-ketocholesterol), and Sanger sequencing for NPC1 and NPC2 genes.
Results:
We screened NPC disease in 17 patients with NC plus organomegaly and that were LSD suspicious, finding 5 NPC patients (29.4%) and 2 carriers.
Conclusions:
Our results emphasize the need to study NPC when NC and visceral enlargement arise in a newborn or infant.
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