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Alpha-1-antitrypsin deficiency: diagnosis, pathophysiology, and management.
Current gastroenterology reports - 1 Feb 2006
Teckman Jeffrey H, Lindblad Douglas
Abstract excerpt
Alpha-1-antitrypsin deficiency is a relatively common but under-recognized genetic disease in which individuals homozygous for the mutant Z disease-associated allele are at risk for the development of liver disease and emphysema. The protein product of the mutant Z gene is synthesized in hepatocytes but accumulates intracellularly rather than being appropriately secreted. The downstream effects of the...
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