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A case of congenital dyserythropoietic anemia type 1 in a Japanese adult with a CDAN1 gene mutation and an inappropriately low serum hepcidin-25 level.
Internal medicine (Tokyo, Japan) - 1 Jan 2012
Kawabata Hiroshi, Doisaki Sayoko, Okamoto Akio, Uchiyama Tatsuki, Sakamoto Soichiro, Hama Asahito, Hosoda Kiminori, Fujikura Junji, Kanno Hitoshi, Fujii Hisaichi, Tomosugi Naohisa, Nakao Kazuwa, Kojima Seiji, Takaori-Kondo Akifumi
Abstract excerpt
We describe the first case of genetically diagnosed congenital dyserythropoietic anemia (CDA) type 1 in a Japanese man. The patient had hemolytic anemia since he was a child, and he developed diabetes, hypogonadism, and liver dysfunction in his thirties, presumably from systemic iron overload. When he was 48 years old a diagnosis was finally made by genetic analysis that revealed a homozygous mutation of CDAN1...
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