The parallel measurement of lyso-GL-3 (lyso-Gb3) for Fabry disease is of high importance particularly for potential female Fabry patients, otherwise women at risk might be missed and consequently be undiagnosed. We analyzed more than 5.000 Dried Blood Spot samples derived from women suspicious to Fabry disease with our certified IVD lyso-GL-3 assay.
Our data of this large cohort showed that without this routinely lyso-GL-3 testing for all women, we might miss up to 20% of females with Fabry disease if lyso-GL-3 testing is not performed.
Together with a second publication we presented these results at the 14th WorldSymposiumTM on lysosomal diseases, 5th to 9th of February, in San Diego:
- Importance of lyso-GL-3 (lyso-Gb3) for primary diagnostics of Fabry disease: two-year experience in a daily routine laboratory
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