Medical Definition of Hereditary fructose intolerance

1. A metabolic error due to deficiency of hepatic fructose 1,6-bisphosphate aldolase B (which also acts on fructose 1-phosphate); the second enzyme in the specific fructose pathway; vomiting and hypoglycaemia follow ingestion of fructose; prolonged fructose ingestion in young children results in failure to thrive and in jaundice, hepatomegaly, albuminuria, aminoaciduria, and sometimes cachexia and death; autosomal recessive inheritance in most families. (05 Mar 2000)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Hereditary Fructose Intolerance

hereditary angioedema
hereditary angioneurotic oedema
hereditary angio oedema
hereditary areflexic dystasia
hereditary ataxia
hereditary benign intraepithelial dyskeratosis
hereditary cerebellar ataxia
hereditary cerebellar ataxia
hereditary chorea
hereditary condition
hereditary coproporphyria
hereditary deafness and nephropathy
hereditary deforming chondrodystrophy
hereditary disease
hereditary exostosis
hereditary fructose intolerance (current term)
hereditary haemorrhagic telangiectasia
hereditary haemorrhagic thrombasthenia
hereditary hyperthyroidism
hereditary hypertrophic neuropathy
hereditary lymphedema
hereditary methemoglobinaemia
hereditary methemoglobinaemic cyanosis
hereditary motor and sensory neuropathy
hereditary multiple exostoses
hereditary multiple trichoepithelioma
hereditary mutation
hereditary myokymia
hereditary nephritis
hereditary opalescent dentin

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