A 9-year-old boy admintted to the hospital because of fracture of left femur due to a minor trauma
belongs to book: MCQs in Pediatrics Review of Nelson Textbook of Pediatrics|Zuhair M Almusawi, Hasanein Ghali|20th edition| Chapter number:11| Question number:11.25
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(C). Treatment of patients with Gaucher disease type 1 includes enzyme replacement therapy. The efficacy of enzyme replacement therapy with mannose-terminated recombinant human acid B-glucosidase has definitively been demonstrated. Most symptoms (organomegaly, hematologic indices, bone pain) are reversed by enzyme replacement therapy (60 IU/kg) administered by intravenous infusion every other week and the bone involvement can be stabilized or improved
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