Abstract

Introduction: Fabry disease is a x-chromosome hereditary disease with an incidence of 1/40000 newborns. Nowadays it presents as much in males as in females and its first clinical symptoms are seen in pediatric patients. Patients have reduced or no activity of alpha-galactosidase which leads to progressive accumulation of GL-3 in lysosomes of all types of cells. This early deposition disrupts lysosomal function, leading to cell death, metabolic problems, vascular lesions, endothelial dysfunction, oxidative stress, alterations in autophagy tissue ischemia, and finally producing fibrosis

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