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Progressive neurologic disability in methylmalonic acidemia despite transplantation of the liver
William L Nyhan1, J Jay Gargus, Karen Boyle
1UCSD Pediatrics (0830), 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, CA 92093-0830, USA. wnyhan@ucsd.edu
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Methylmalonic acidemia unresponsive to cobalamin is often fatal in infancy. Patients have been considered candidates for hepatic transplantation and experience has been that the procedure eliminates the life-threatening episodes of ketoacidosis that characterize this disease.
Conclusion:
experience with a 24-year-old patient treated with hepatic transplantation indicates that this procedure does not prevent progressive renal failure and neurologic dysfunction.
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