Article
[Recent advances of the treatment in metabolic disorders].
Rinsho shinkeigaku = Clinical neurology - 1 Dec 2000
Ikeda S
Abstract excerpt
Familial amyloid polyneuropathy (FAP) and adult type (type II) citrullinemia are caused by metabolic disorders in liver: the vast majority of serum amyloid precursors (variant forms of transthyretin) in FAP are produced in liver and adult citrullinemia is ascribed to a deficiency of argininosuccinate synthetase (ASS), one of the five urea cycle enzymes in liver. Liver transplantation is, therefore, expected to...
Topics
- Amyloid Neuropathies
- Citrullinemia
- Humans
- Japan
- Liver Transplantation
- Mutation
- Prealbumin
- Treatment Outcome
