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Recurrent acute liver failure due to NBAS deficiency: phenotypic spectrum, disease mechanisms, and therapeutic concepts.
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Edité par CCSD ; Springer Verlag -
International audience. BackgroundAcute liver failure (ALF) in infancy and child-hood is a life-threatening emergency and in about 50 % theetiology remains unknown. Recently biallelic mutations inNBASwere identified as a new molecular cause of ALF withonset in infancy, leading torecurrent acute liver failure(RALF).MethodsThe phenotype and medical history of 14 individ-uals with NBAS deficiency was studied in detail and function-al studies were performed on patients’fibroblasts.