Gaucher's disease laboratory findings

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In populations with high rates of carriage (Ashkenazi Jews and Norrbottnian Swedes and a few African American tribes), some family members of the index patient may already have been diagnosed with Gaucher’s. Truly sporadic cases may suffer diagnostic delay due to the protean symptoms.

Complete blood count and differential count: anemia, neutropenia and thrombocytopenia

Biochemical abnormalities: high alkaline phosphatase, angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) and immunoglobulin levels.

Other tests include:

• Blood test to look for enzyme activity
• Bone marrow aspiration
• Genetic testing

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