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Spur cell anaemia and hepatic iron stores in patients with alcoholic liver disease undergoing orthotopic liver transplantation.
Gut - 1 Aug 1999
Pascoe A, Kerlin P, Steadman C, Clouston A, Jones D, Powell L, Jazwinska E, Lynch S, Strong R
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Following orthotopic liver transplantation (OLT) histological examination of explant livers from patients with alcoholic liver disease (ALD) sometimes shows extensive iron deposits in a distribution suggestive of homozygous haemochromatosis. AIMS: To use haemochromatosis gene (HFE) assays to distinguish between ALD with notable siderosis and hereditary haemochromatosis. To evaluate the possible...
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