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Shwachman-Diamond syndrome

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Shwachman-Diamond syndrome: Shwachman syndrome

Shwachman-Diamond syndrome is a rare, multi-system disorder in which affected individuals have a defective pancreas that fails to secrete digestive enzymes, poor growth and a predisposition to recurrent infection and blood disorders.

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Medical text written December 1993 by Professor P Milla. Last updated October 2005 by Professor P Milla, Professor of Paediatric Gastroenterology and Dr N Shah, Consultant Paediatric Gastroenterologist, Great Ormond Street Hospital, London, UK.

 

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