Alpha 1-antitrypsin deficiency and liver disease: clinical presentation, diagnosis and treatment.

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The alpha 1-antitrypsin deficient subject (protease inhibitor (PI) phenotype ZZ) has an increased susceptibility to liver disease. The condition is most commonly identified in early infancy as a conjugated hyperbilirubinaemia with hepatitis (11%) or a bleeding state due to vitamin K malabsorption (2%). 50% of cases have cirrhosis and 25% die in the first decade of life. A further 2% present with cirrhosis in...

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