Liver Transplantation in an Adult with Citrullinaemia Type 2

Citrullinaemia is a urea cycle defect that results from a deficiency of the enzyme arginosuccinate synthetase. Type 1 disease is diagnosed in childhood, whereas Type 2 disease is adult onset. We report the outcome of a patient with citrullinemia Type 2 who received a liver transplant at our center a...

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Autores principales: Tan, Hui-Hui, Chow, Wan-Cheng, Lim, Kiat-Hon, Wan, Wei-Keat, Chung, Alexander Y. F., Cheow, Peng-Chung, Tan, Chee-Kiat
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2011
Materias:
Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3103874/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21647347
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2011/176370
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Sumario:Citrullinaemia is a urea cycle defect that results from a deficiency of the enzyme arginosuccinate synthetase. Type 1 disease is diagnosed in childhood, whereas Type 2 disease is adult onset. We report the outcome of a patient with citrullinemia Type 2 who received a liver transplant at our center and the implications of this diagnosis in liver transplantation.

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