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Neonatal hemochromatosis.
Gastroenterology clinics of North America - 1 Sept 2003
Knisely A S, Mieli-Vergani Giorgina, Whitington Peter F
Abstract excerpt
Neonatal hemochromatosis is a rare gestational condition in which iron accumulates in the fetal tissues in a distribution like that seen in hereditary hemochromatosis. Extensive liver damage is the dominant clinical feature, with late fetal loss or early neonatal death. NH recurs within sibships at a rate higher than that predicted for simple Mendelian autosomal-recessive inheritance, possibly suggesting the role...
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