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Cirrhosis in an infant heterozygous for classical citrullinaemia.
Acta paediatrica (Oslo, Norway : 1992) - 1 Dec 2005
Ezgü Fatih Süheyl, Tümer Leyla, Dalgiç Buket, Hasanoĝlu Alev, Kobayashi Keiko, Saheki Takeyori
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UNLABELLED: Classical citrullinaemia is caused by the inherited deficiency of argininosuccinate synthetase. Although varying degrees of liver involvement have been observed in urea cycle defects, including classical citrullinaemia, the co-existence of liver failure in a patient heterozygous for the disease has not been reported before. A female infant was investigated to find out the aetiology of early infantile...
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