Successful living-donor liver transplantation from an asymptomatic carrier mother in ornithine transcarbamylase deficiency.
case_report · Level V
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Abstract
A liver transplantation from an asymptomatic mother, who was a carrier of ornithine transcarbamylase deficiency, to her daughter, who had severe manifestation, was successfully performed. One-year monitoring of plasma amino acid and urinary orotate/orotidine levels revealed no abnormality in the urea cycle in either subject.
Medical subject headings
- Heterozygote
- Liver Transplantation
- Living Donors
- Ornithine Carbamoyltransferase Deficiency Disease
- Uridine