Tay Sachs disease: an autopsy case report. 2005

Meenal Vitthal Jadhav, and Meenal P Landge, and Satyakam K Sawaimoon, and Arun B Harke, and Sanjay D Deshmukh
Department of Pathology, B. I. Medical College, Pune. drvhjadhav@hotmail.com

This report describes a case report of a postmortem performed on a 5-year old patient of Tay-Sachs disease, presenting with failure to thrive, muscular flaccidity, and cherry-red spots on macula on fundoscopy. There was no history of similarly affected sibling or any other family member. The diagnosis was confirmed by enzyme studies. At postmortem, there was no organomegaly. The brain, on microscopy, showed vacuolated swollen neurons.

UI MeSH Term Description Entries
D007194 India A country in southern Asia, bordering the Arabian Sea and the Bay of Bengal, between Burma and Pakistan. The capitol is New Delhi. Republic of India
D008297 Male Males
D001921 Brain The part of CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM that is contained within the skull (CRANIUM). Arising from the NEURAL TUBE, the embryonic brain is comprised of three major parts including PROSENCEPHALON (the forebrain); MESENCEPHALON (the midbrain); and RHOMBENCEPHALON (the hindbrain). The developed brain consists of CEREBRUM; CEREBELLUM; and other structures in the BRAIN STEM. Encephalon
D002675 Child, Preschool A child between the ages of 2 and 5. Children, Preschool,Preschool Child,Preschool Children
D003937 Diagnosis, Differential Determination of which one of two or more diseases or conditions a patient is suffering from by systematically comparing and contrasting results of diagnostic measures. Diagnoses, Differential,Differential Diagnoses,Differential Diagnosis
D006801 Humans Members of the species Homo sapiens. Homo sapiens,Man (Taxonomy),Human,Man, Modern,Modern Man
D001344 Autopsy Postmortem examination of the body. Autopsies,Post-Mortem Examination,Postmortem Examination,Examination, Post-Mortem,Examination, Postmortem,Examinations, Post-Mortem,Examinations, Postmortem,Post Mortem Examination,Post-Mortem Examinations,Postmortem Examinations
D013661 Tay-Sachs Disease An autosomal recessive neurodegenerative disorder characterized by the onset in infancy of an exaggerated startle response, followed by paralysis, dementia, and blindness. It is caused by mutation in the alpha subunit of the HEXOSAMINIDASE A resulting in lipid-laden ganglion cells. It is also known as the B variant (with increased HEXOSAMINIDASE B but absence of hexosaminidase A) and is strongly associated with Ashkenazic Jewish ancestry. G(M2) Gangliosidosis, Type I,Gangliosidosis G(M2), Type I,Gangliosidosis GM2, B Variant,Hexosaminidase A Deficiency Disease,Tay-Sachs Disease, B Variant,Amaurotic Familial Idiocy,B Variant GM2 Gangliosidosis,B Variant GM2-Gangliosidosis,Deficiency Disease Hexosaminidase A,Familial Amaurotic Idiocy,GM2 Gangliosidosis, B Variant,GM2 Gangliosidosis, Type 1,GM2 Gangliosidosis, Type I,GM2-Gangliosidosis, Type I,Gangliosidosis GM2 , Type 1,Gangliosidosis GM2, Type I,HexA Deficiency,Hexosaminidase A Deficiency,Hexosaminidase alpha-Subunit Deficiency (Variant B),Sphingolipidosis, Tay-Sachs,Amaurotic Idiocy, Familial,B Variant GM2-Gangliosidoses,Deficiency, Hexosaminidase A,Deficiency, Hexosaminidase alpha-Subunit (Variant B),GM2-Gangliosidosis, B Variant,Hexosaminidase alpha Subunit Deficiency (Variant B),Sphingolipidosis, Tay Sachs,Tay Sachs Disease,Tay Sachs Disease, B Variant,Tay-Sachs Sphingolipidosis,Type I GM2-Gangliosidosis

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