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The number of metabolic disorders associated with nonimmune hydrops fetalis is very small and includes only Gaucher disease, GM1 gangliosidosis type 1, Hurler syndrome, and mucolipidosis type I. We report another association of a nonimmune hydrops fetalis with Niemann-Pick disease as evident by
Seventy amniotic fluids (AF) were sampled because of abnormal ultrasound findings (mainly non-immune hydrops fetalis (54 cases) or of the presence of vacuolated lymphocytes in fetal blood (3 cases)). They were analysed by a procedure involving AF supernatant analysis (glycosaminoglycans,
Niemann-Pick disease type C (NPC) is an autosomal recessive, neurovisceral lipid storage disorder. Mutations in two genes (NPC1 and NPC2) produce indistinguishable clinical phenotypes by biochemical mechanisms that have not yet been entirely clarified. The wide spectrum of clinical presentations of