Cholestasis After Pediatric Liver Transplantation-Recurrence of a Progressive Familial Intrahepatic Cholestasis Phenotype as a Rare Differential Diagnosis: A Case Report.

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INTRODUCTION: Nonobstructive cholestasis after pediatric liver transplantation is a common diagnostic and therapeutic dilemma. We describe a girl with neonatal cholestasis because of progressive familial intrahepatic cholestasis 2 (PFIC-2) and presence of a homozygous splice site mutation in the ABCB11 gene. Liver transplantation was performed because of end-stage liver disease at the age of 6. Cholestasis with...

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