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The primary purpose of the present study is to evaluate the effect of chenodeoxycholic acid treatment on skeletal system findings in patients with cerebrotendinous xanthomatosis.This retrospective study was conducted between June 2013 and December 2018 with Significant osteoporosis determined by skeleton radiography and bone densitometry was found in 15 patients with cerebrotendinous xanthomatosis (CTX) whose mean age was 31 +/- 11 years. In three CTX patients, bone biopsies confirmed osteoporosis. Nine patients also sustained bone fractures following
A male born to first cousins presented at 12 months with hypocalcemic convulsions, rickets, epistaxis due to vitamin K deficiency, and extremely low serum levels of beta-carotene and vitamin A. Liver function was altered moderately (glutamic-oxaloacetic transaminase, 55 U/L; glutamic-pyruvic
The fundamental ultrastructure of lipid storage in the xanthoma cells of various xanthomatous diseases, including familial hyperlipoproteinemia type IIa, III, and V, cerebrotendinous xanthomatosis, Wolman's disease, Tangier disease, Hand-Schüller-Christian disease, and normolipidemic cutaneous