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Hui-Hui Tan1, Wan-Cheng Chow, Kiat-Hon Lim
1Liver Transplant Service, Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Singapore General Hospital, Singapore 169608.
Journal of Transplantation
|June 8, 2011
Abstract:
Citrullinaemia is a urea cycle defect that results from a deficiency of the enzyme arginosuccinate synthetase. Type 1 disease is diagnosed in childhood, whereas Type 2 disease is adult onset. We report the outcome of a patient with citrullinemia Type 2 who received a liver transplant at our center and the implications of this diagnosis in liver transplantation.
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