Diseases

Glycogen Storage Disease Type VIII

An x-linked recessive hepatic glycogen storage disease resulting from lack of expression of phosphorylase-b-kinase activity. Symptoms are relatively mild; hepatomegaly, increased liver glycogen, and decreased leukocyte phosphorylase are present. Liver shrinkage occurs in response to glucagon.

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An x-linked recessive hepatic glycogen storage disease resulting from lack of expression of phosphorylase-b-kinase activity. Symptoms are relatively mild; hepatomegaly, increased liver glycogen, and decreased leukocyte phosphorylase are present. Liver shrinkage occurs in response to glucagon.

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  • Glycogenosis 8

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Indexed with the subheadings blood, cerebrospinal fluid, chemically induced, classification, complications, diagnosis, diagnostic imaging, diet therapy, drug therapy, economics, embryology, enzymology, epidemiology, ethnology, etiology, genetics, history, immunology, metabolism, microbiology, mortality, nursing, parasitology, pathology, physiopathology, prevention & control, psychology, radiotherapy, rehabilitation, surgery, therapy, urine, veterinary, virology.

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do not use /congen & do not coord with INFANT, NEWBORN, DISEASES

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History Note

91(89); was see under GLYCOGEN STORAGE DISEASE 1989-90; was GLYCOGENOSIS 8 see under GLYCOGENOSIS 1975-88

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Previous Indexing

  • Glycogenosis (1966-1974)

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References

  1. National Library of Medicine. Glycogen Storage Disease Type VIII. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D006015. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D006015
  2. Glycogen Storage Disease Type VIII. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18555183