When to See a Specialist About Chediak-Higashi syndrome
By Dr. Hana Tanaka, MD · · Genetic Medicine
Patients often ask us about Chediak-Higashi syndrome. Here is what our Genetic Medicine clinicians want you to know.
About this topic
Topic: Chediak-Higashi syndrome. A syndrome characterized by oculocutaneous albinism, immune deficiency, coagulation deficiency and neuropathy and that has_material_basis_in homozygous or compound heterozygous mutation in the lysosomal trafficking regulator gene (LYST) on chromosome 1q42.
Related care
- micronutrient supplementation
- substrate reduction therapy
- tocolytic agent therapy
- salivary cortisol test
- chromosomal microarray testing
- clinical whole genome sequencing
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