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Deficiencia de piruvatocinasa - Prevención

Prevención:

La asesoría genética puede ayudar a los futuros padres con antecedentes familiares de deficiencia de piruvatocinasa. El diagnóstico de las personas portadoras del gen a menudo se puede hacer encontrando una disminución en la actividad de la piruvatocinasa en los glóbulos rojos.

  • Fecha de revisión: 5/15/2008
  • Versión en inglés revisada por:Chad Haldeman-Englert, MD, Division of Human Genetics, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA. Review provided by VeriMed Healthcare Network. Also reviewed by David Zieve, MD, MHA, Medical Director, A.D.A.M., Inc.
  • Traducción y localización realizada por: DrTango, Inc

Referencias

Segel GB. Enzymatic Defects. In: Kliegman RM, Behrman RE, Jenson HB, Stanton BF. Kliegman: Nelson Textbook of Pediatrics. 18th ed. Philadelphia, Pa: Saunders Elsevier; 2007: chap 463.

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