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Successful perioperative management of living-donor liver transplantation for a patient with severe methylmalonic acidemia: a case report

BACKGROUND: Methylmalonic acidemia (MMAemia) is a rare hereditary disease affecting organic acid metabolism. It causes recurrent metabolic acidosis and secondary mitochondrial dysfunction, resulting in a poor prognosis. Liver transplantation (LT) has been performed to facilitate the metabolism of or...

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Autores principales: Hirotsu, Akiko, Kusudo, Eriko, Mori, Natsumi, Miyai, Yoshimitsu, Suzuki, Kengo, Kawamoto, Shuji, Fukuda, Kazuhiko
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6967269/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32026114
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40981-018-0221-y