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Liver transplantation in two cases of propionic acidaemia
1 Jul 1995
Abstract excerpt
Orthotopic liver transplantation (OLT) was performed in two patients with propionic acidaemia, a 7-year-old boy and a 9-year-old girl, diagnosed with a severe neonatal form with high risk of metabolic decompensation. In both cases the metabolic liver functions recovered within the 12 postoperative hours; no clinical symptoms of propionic acid toxicity, metabolic acidosis, severe hyperammonaemia, hyperglycinaemia...
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