Neonatal liver cirrhosis without iron overload caused by gestational alloimmune liver disease

Pediatrics

Volumn 129, Issue 4, 2012, Pages

  Debray, Francois Guillaume ^a   De Halleux, Virginie ^b   Guidi, Ornella ^b   Detrembleur, Nancy ^a   Gaillez, Stéphanie ^a   Rausin, Léon ^b   Goyens, Philippe ^c   Pan, Xiaomin ^d   Whitington, Peter F ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

^b Centre Hospitalier Regional de La Citadelle   (Belgium)

^c HOP UNIV DES ENFANTS REINE FABIOLA   (Belgium)

^d CHILDREN'S MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Cirrhosis; Gestational alloimmune disease; Membrane attack complex; Neonatal hemochromatosis

Indexed keywords

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE; FERRITIN; GAMMA GLUTAMYLTRANSFERASE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G ANTIBODY;

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; ALLOIMMUNITY; ARTICLE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; CASE REPORT; COMPLEMENT CLASSICAL PATHWAY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE COURSE; FERRITIN BLOOD LEVEL; GAMMA GLUTAMYL TRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; GESTATIONAL AGE; HEPATOBILIARY PARAMETERS; HEPATOMEGALY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPERBILIRUBINEMIA; IRON OVERLOAD; LIVER BIOPSY; LIVER CELL; LIVER CELL DAMAGE; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER DISEASE; LIVER DYSFUNCTION; NEWBORN; NEWBORN DISEASE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 84859391079     PISSN: 00314005     EISSN: 10984275     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1542/peds.2011-0568     Document Type: Article

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