von Gierke disease

von Gierke disease
von Gier·ke disease vän-'gir-kə- or von Gier·ke's disease -kəz- n a glycogen storage disease that is caused by a deficiency of glucose-6-phosphate and has a clinical onset at birth or during infancy, that is characterized esp. by enlargement of the liver and kidney, hypoglycemia, hyperlipidemia, hyperuricemia, acidosis, adiposity, xanthomas, and nosebleeds, and is inherited as an autosomal recessive trait
Gierke Edgar Otto Konrad von (1877-1945)
German pathologist. Von Gierke's chief academic position was a professorship of bacteriology at Karlsruhe's Technical University. During World War I he served first as a field doctor and then as a military pathologist. In 1911 he published a textbook of pathological anatomy. He described the type of glycogen storage disease identified with his name in 1929. Other areas of his research included thyroid gland structure, bone tumors, and metabolic diseases.

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glycogen storage d., type I.

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