The risks of developing energy or nutrient deficits are of great concern in infants and children with the rare lymphoedema cholestasis syndrome 1 (LCS1)/Aagenaes syndrome. In adolescents and adults, it is not known whether LCS1 patients need specific dietary advice outside periods of cholestasis. The primary objective of the present study was to evaluate the progression of the liver disease and nutritional status in patients with LCS1 over a period of nine years.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: The characterizations of primary lymphedemas in different hereditary diseases are often published as case reports. In this study, 17 out of 20 Norweigian adult patients with lymphedema cholestasis syndrome 1 (LCS1)/Aagenaes syndrome were examined. The patients exhibited lymphedema and sporadic cholestasis.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Lymphedema-cholestasis syndrome (LCS; Aagenaes syndrome) is a rare autosomal recessive disorder, characterized by 1) neonatal intrahepatic cholestasis, often lessening and becoming intermittent with age, and 2) severe chronic lymphedema, mainly lower limb. LCS was originally described in a Norwegian kindred in which a locus, LCS1, was mapped to a 6.6cM region on chromosome 15.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThis case describes the clinical course and treatment of a 17-year-old male patient with advanced hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) arising in a non-cirrhotic liver. The disease was thought to be caused by a congenital cholestatic syndrome associated with intermittent oedema in childhood, resembling the rare Aagenaes syndrome. Treatment choices in advanced HCC arising in adolescence are discussed.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFWe present a Norwegian family, followed since 1967, with a chromosome 6q24 duplication in two siblings with neonatal diabetes, in their non-diabetic father, and in a female (third generation) with adult-onset diabetes. The parents (first generation) were healthy and non-consanguineous. After a miscarriage, the couple had two infants with birth weights of 1780 and 1620 g, respectively, both of whom died on their second day of life.
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