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Intrahepatic cholestasis of pregnancy: the severe form is associated with common variants of the hepatobiliary phospholipid transporter ABCB4 gene.
Gut - 1 Feb 2007
Wasmuth H E, Glantz A, Keppeler H, Simon E, Bartz C, Rath W, Mattsson L-A, Marschall H-U, Lammert F
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BACKGROUND: Intrahepatic cholestasis of pregnancy (ICP) is characterised by troublesome maternal pruritus, raised serum bile acid levels and increased fetal risk. Mutations of the ABCB4 gene encoding the hepatobiliary phospholipid transporter have been identified in a small proportion of patients with cholestasis of pregnancy. In a recent prospective study on 693 patients with cholestasis of pregnancy, a cut-off...
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