title: [Type B Niemann-Pick disease and sea-blue histiocytes syndrome].
abstract: We report two new cases, in the same family, of type B Niemann-Pick disease associated with sea-blue histiocytes syndrome. In one patient the disease was revealed by spontaneous rupture of the spleen. The sea-blue histiocytes syndrome is due to the histiocytes being overloaded by ceroids, and it usually occurs in a context of blood disease or thesaurismosis. Twenty-five cases of sea-blue histiocytes syndrome associated with type B Niemann-Pick disease have been reported, with rupture of the spleen in two of them. The link between the two conditions is the transformation into ceroids of the sphyngomyelin accumulated in histiocytes.
authors.affiliation: Médecine 1; Centre Hospitalier, Blois.
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Rodon
authors.forename: J P
authors.initials: JP
authors.lastname: Ramain
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Bruandet
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Piedon
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Akli
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Penot
mesh_terms: D002566:Ceroid; D005260:Female; D006644:Histiocytes; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009542:Niemann-Pick Diseases / Q000150:complications / Q000473:pathology*; D013161:Splenic Rupture / Q000209:etiology; D013577:Syndrome
chemical_list: D002566:Ceroid
vernacular_title: La maladie de Niemann-Pick type B avec syndrome des histiocytes bleu de mer.