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Copper metabolism after living donor liver transplantation for hepatic failure of Wilson's disease from a gene mutated donor.
Hepato-gastroenterology - 1 Jan 2000
Kobayashi S, Ochiai T, Hori S, Suzuki T, Shimizu T, Gunji Y, Shimada H, Yamamoto S, Ogawa A, Kohno Y, Sunaga M, Shimazu M, Tanaka K
Abstract excerpt
There is a genetic problem in living donor liver transplantation, involving Wilson's disease, because the majority of donors have a kinship relationship. Recently, it was reported that the serum ceruloplasmin level is insufficient in some persons with one allele mutation. The recipient was a 13-year-old male child, and the donor was a 22-year-old woman, who was his sister by a different father. The gene analysis...
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