Gaucher's Disease and Coagulation Factors

  1. ARTHUR SAWITSKY, M.D.; and
  2. BRUCE F. BOKLAN, M.D.
  1. Division of Hematology
    Long Island Jewish Medical Center
    New Hyde Park, N.Y.

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    To the editor: The concurrence of two unusual disorders in one patient has led us to investigate the relationship between them.

    Patient H.G. is a 52-year-old man with Gaucher's disease; the diagnosis made 35 years earlier in him and two of four siblings. He has had thrombocytopenia for many years. He was seen here by us because of a tender right lower-quadrant mass of 6 weeks' duration. He had a Grade III/IV holosystolic apical cardiac murmur, massive hepatosplenomegaly, and a firm mass in the right side of the abdomen, from the inguinal ligament to the liver and, laterally, to the

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