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enzyme defect

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enzyme defect
A structural or functional defect in an enzyme needed to catalyze a normal biochemical reaction in the body. See Enzyme, Inborn error of metabolism.


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Rarely, cataracts can present at birth or in early childhood as a result of hereditary enzyme defects, and severe trauma to the eye, eye surgery, or intraocular inflammation can also cause cataracts to occur earlier in life.
Underexcretion disorders refers to intrinsic enzyme defects in bilirubin metabolism that can lead to elevations in either conjugated (Dubin-Johnson and Rotor syndromes) or unconjugated (Crigler-Najjar and Gilbert syndromes) bilirubin.
If you have an enzyme defect within your body that does not naturally break down purines than you are more likely to get gout.
 
 
 
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