Early-onset liver disease complicated with acute liver failure in Alstrom syndrome

American Journal of Medical Genetics

Volumn 101, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 9-11

  Quiros Tejeira, Ruben E ^a   Vargas, Jorge ^a   Ament, Marvin E ^a  

^a UCLA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Coagulopathy; Encephalopathy; Hyperammonemia; Mitochondrial disorder

Indexed keywords

ACANTHOSIS NIGRICANS; ALSTROM SYNDROME; ARTICLE; AUTOSOMAL RECESSIVE DISORDER; BONE DISEASE; CASE REPORT; CHILD; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE COURSE; DISORDERS OF MITOCHONDRIAL FUNCTIONS; FEMALE; HEART DILATATION; HUMAN; HYPERINSULINEMIA; HYPERTRIGLYCERIDEMIA; IRON DEFICIENCY ANEMIA; KIDNEY DISEASE; LIVER DISEASE; LIVER FAILURE; MICROCYTIC ANEMIA; OBESITY; PERCEPTION DEAFNESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA DEGENERATION; SYNDROME DELINEATION;

ABNORMALITIES, MULTIPLE; AGE OF ONSET; CHILD; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISSEMINATED INTRAVASCULAR COAGULATION; DWARFISM; FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; HEARING LOSS, SENSORINEURAL; HEPATIC ENCEPHALOPATHY; HUMANS; HYPERAMMONEMIA; LIVER DISEASES; LIVER FAILURE, ACUTE; MITOCHONDRIA, LIVER; OBESITY; RETINAL DEGENERATION; SYNDROME; VISION DISORDERS;

EID: 0035370870     PISSN: 01487299     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ajmg.1292     Document Type: Article

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