AUTHOR=Wei Meili , Han Aiqin , Wei Liping , Ma Liji 

TITLE=A Neonatal Case With Perinatal Lethal Gaucher Disease Associated With Missense G234E and H413P Heterozygous Mutations

JOURNAL=Frontiers in Pediatrics

VOLUME=7

YEAR=2019

URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/pediatrics/articles/10.3389/fped.2019.00201

DOI=10.3389/fped.2019.00201

ISSN=2296-2360

ABSTRACT=<p>Perinatal lethal Gaucher disease (PLGD), a particular and serious form of type 2 Gaucher disease (GD), often causes lethality <italic>in utero</italic> or death within hours after birth. The typical clinical manifestations include non-immune hydrops fetalis (NIHF), premature birth, fetal growth restriction, fetal intrauterine death, or neonatal distress and rapid death after birth. Here, we present a premature neonate with GD whose main clinical manifestations included intrauterine growth retardation, anasarca, facial dysmorphia, ichthyosis, respiratory distress, hepatosplenomegaly, joint contractures, myoclonus, refractory thrombocytopenia, anemia, elevated levels of liver enzymes, bile acid and direct bilirubin, cholestasis, pulmonary hypoplasia, intracranial hemorrhage, and abnormal electroencephalogram. The activity of β- glucocerebrosidase was 0 in the peripheral white blood cells of the neonate. The sequencing analysis identified the presence of missense G234E and H413P heterozygous mutations in glucerebrosidase (GBA) exon 7 and 10, with the latter first observed to be associated with PLGD. This infant died at 73 days of age.</p>