Ambroxol improves skeletal and hematological manifestations on a child with Gaucher disease

J Hum Genet. 2020 Mar;65(3):345-349. doi: 10.1038/s10038-019-0704-3. Epub 2019 Dec 11.

Abstract

Gaucher disease (GD) is a lysosomal storage disease caused by the deficiency of glucocerebrosidase characterized by a broad spectrum of clinical manifestations including hepatosplenomegaly, bone infiltration, and cytopenia, and even central nervous system involvement. Bone manifestations are typical of the GD-I and partially responded to mainstay therapy. Ambroxol (ABX), an approved cough-suppressant, was identified as an enzyme-enhancement agent of the residual activity of glucocerebrosidase mutants derived from different misfolding-mutations in the GBA gene. Here, we describe the early beneficial effects of ABX on skeletal and hematological manifestations of a child suffering with progressive GD-I.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Ambroxol / administration & dosage*
  • Child
  • Enzyme Replacement Therapy
  • Gaucher Disease / drug therapy*
  • Gaucher Disease / genetics
  • Gaucher Disease / pathology
  • Glucosylceramidase / genetics
  • Humans
  • Lysosomal Storage Diseases / drug therapy*
  • Lysosomal Storage Diseases / genetics
  • Lysosomal Storage Diseases / physiopathology
  • Mutation / genetics
  • Pedigree
  • Skeleton / abnormalities
  • Skeleton / drug effects*
  • Splenomegaly / drug therapy
  • Splenomegaly / genetics

Substances

  • Ambroxol
  • Glucosylceramidase