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Persistent jaundice in an infant with homozygous beta thalassemia due to co-inherited Crigler-Najjar syndrome.
Pediatric blood & cancer - 1 Apr 2010
Aggarwal Varun, Seth Anju, Sharma Sunita, Aneja Satinder, Sammarco Pietro, Fabiano Carmelo
Abstract excerpt
Clinically apparent jaundice is unusual in patients with beta-thalassemia major. Co-inheritance of Gilbert syndrome has been reported to cause hyperbilirubinemia in these subjects. Crigler-Najjar syndrome is another rare disorder of bilirubin metabolism caused by mutation in the gene coding the e...
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