Glycogen

A glycogen storage disease (also called glycogen storage disease) is any illness related to inborn errors of metabolism, resulting from enzyme deficiencies that affect the processing of glycogen synthesis or breakdown in your muscles efígado.

In the 70 patients with glycogen storage disease had an increased mortality and permanent neurological damage with great delay in mental development and growth. Current treatment has significantly changed the clinical course, and there was dramatic improvement of prognosis in patients with glycogen storage disease type I, with a life expectancy exceeding the third decade.

Types

There are nine diseases that are generally regarded as glycogenosis. (Although the deficiency of the enzyme glycogen synthase does not result in an excess of glycogen stores in the liver, it is usually classified along with glycogenosis type as "0" because it is another defect in glycogen storage and can cause similar problems.)

Number enzyme deficient Eponym

Glycogen storage disease type I

glucose-6-phosphatase