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Metabolic stroke in methylmalonic acidemia five years after liver transplantation
Anupam Chakrapani1, P Sivakumar, P J McKiernan
1Liver Unit, Birmingham Children's Hospital, United Kingdom.
The Journal of Pediatrics
|February 28, 2002
Abstract:
It is believed that liver transplantation may improve the outcome of early onset methylmalonic acidemia. We report a case of methylmalonic acidemia in which successful liver transplantation in infancy failed to prevent neurologic damage caused by a metabolic stroke.