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The Fabry Disease
Title: The Fabry Disease
Category: Recreation & Sports / Health Care
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The Fabry Disease
A good essay about the classification,description,diagnosis, prognosis, and treatment of the fabry diesease. Very good essay,neatly done, well organized
The Fabry Disease
Classification
The Fabry Disease is a hereditary disorder, caused by the lack of alphagalactosidase A. It is an x-linked recessive inheritance. Therefore it is the females that carry it. The ones who are mostly affected by this disease are the males. Female carriers, though, may develop angiokeratomas and may have …showed first 75 words of 367 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 367 total…diagnosis by way of Amniocentesis or Chronic Villus Sampling is also available.
Prognosis
People affected by this disorder usually dies by the age of 40-50 from kidney failure or cerbovascular complications.
Treatment
There is only treatment to relieve the pains of the symptoms. Researchers are working towards the possibility of replacing the enzyme.
Bibliography
The Encyclopedia of Genetic Disorder and Birth Defects, By James Wynbrandt and Mark D. Ludman, M.D., F.R.C.P.C.
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