Coinheritance of hereditary spherocytosis and reversibility of cirrhosis in a young female patient with hereditary hemochromatosis

Here we report a 33-years-old woman with hereditary spherocytosis and hemochromatosis due to homozygosity for the C282Y mutation of the HFE gene. The coinheritance of both conditions led to severe iron overload and liver cirrhosis at young age. The patient was treated by repeated phlebotomy, and rev...

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Autores principales: Höblinger, A, Erdmann, C, Strassburg, CP, Sauerbruch, T, Lammert, F
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2009
Materias:
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3401009/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19380292
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/2047-783X-14-4-182

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