Autopsy case of Gaucher disease type I in a patient on enzyme replacement therapy. Comments on the dynamics of persistent storage process

Abstrakt

We report a female patient with Gaucher disease (GD) type I on ERT (imiglucerase) for 5 years, which led to a significant general improvement.All these observations point to the relative efficacy of ERT in covering the standard substrate load, which should not be exceeded as it would lead to the evolution of mature GCs. The results are discussed in relation to our recently published hypothesis on GD cell pathology.