Normal long-term neurologic and graft outcome after liver transplantation in an infant with Neimann-Pick type C disease.

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Niemann-Pick type C disease is a rare autosomal recessive lysosomal disorder that leads to the accumulation of lipids in cellular organelles. Affected infants are often cholestatic with hepatosplenomegaly, developmental delay and may present in acute liver failure. Medical therapy has shown some promise in long-term studies, in patients with milder phenotypes of the disease. Liver transplantation has generally...

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