N-acetyl cysteine averted liver transplantation in a patient with liver failure caused by erythropoietic protoporphyria.

Sperl, Jan

N-acetyl cysteine averted liver transplantation in a patient with liver failure caused by erythropoietic protoporphyria. [electronic resource] - Liver transplantation : official publication of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases and the International Liver Transplantation Society Mar 2009 - 352-4 p. digital

Publication Type: Case Reports; Comment; Letter; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

1527-6473

10.1002/lt.21669 doi


Acetylcysteine--therapeutic use
Adult
Exons
Ferrochelatase--genetics
Humans
Liver Failure--drug therapy
Liver Transplantation
Male
Mutation
Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide
Protoporphyria, Erythropoietic--diagnosis