Metabolic iron disorder after liver transplant: Hereditary hemochromatosis in a pediatric recipient of a pediatric donor with unknown HFE C282Y homozygous mutation.

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We report a case of an iron overload syndrome twenty years after a liver transplantation in a patient without feature for secondary iron overload. The diagnosis of hemochromatosis with homozygous mutationC282Y in the graft was made possible with liver biopsy, using real-time PCR technique with Light-Cycler 480. Our case suggests that in case of iron overload syndrome after liver transplantation we can perform a...

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