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Abdominal pain and cirrhosis at diagnosis of hemochromatosis: Analysis of 219 referred probands with HFE p.C282Y homozygosity and a literature review.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2021
Barton James C, Barton J Clayborn, Patel Neha, McLaren Gordon D
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BACKGROUND: In hemochromatosis, causes of abdominal pain and its associations with cirrhosis are poorly understood. METHODS: We retrospectively compared characteristics of referred hemochromatosis probands with HFE p.C282Y homozygosity with/without biopsy-proven cirrhosis: sex, age, diabetes, heavy alcohol consumption, abdominal pain/tenderness, hepatomegaly, splenomegaly, non-alcoholic fatty liver disease,...
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