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Pregnancy and tyrosinaemia type II
R Cerone1, A R Fantasia, E Castellano
1University Department of Pediatrics, G. Gaslini Institute, Genoa, Italy.
Journal of Inherited Metabolic Disease
|September 14, 2002
Abstract:
A female patient with tyrosinaemia type II is reported having undergone two untreated pregnancies. During pregnancies, plasma tyrosine was raised. The outcomes of both offspring show that maternal tyrosinaemia may have an adverse effect on the developing fetus.