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Successful domino liver transplantation in maple syrup urine disease using a related living donor.
Brazilian journal of medical and biological research = Revista brasileira de pesquisas medicas e biologicas - 1 Jun 2014
Feier F H, Miura I K, Fonseca E A, Porta G, Pugliese R, Porta A, Schwartz I V D, Margutti A V B, Camelo J S, Yamaguchi S N, Taveira A T, Candido H, Benavides M, Danesi V, Guimaraes T, Kondo M, Chapchap P, Neto J Seda
Abstract excerpt
Maple syrup urine disease (MSUD) is an autosomal recessive disease associated with high levels of branched-chain amino acids. Children with MSUD can present severe neurological damage, but liver transplantation (LT) allows the patient to resume a normal diet and avoid further neurological damage. The use of living related donors has been controversial because parents are obligatory heterozygotes. We report a case...
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