Transient symptomatic zinc deficiency in a breastfed infant associated with low zinc levels in maternal serum and breast milk improving after zinc supplementation: An uncommon phenotype?

• Hauptverfasser: Sanket Vashist (Verfasst von), Ashwani Rana (Verfasst von), Vikram K Mahajan (Verfasst von)
• Format: Buch
• Veröffentlicht: Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications, 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z.
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Acrodermatitis enteropathica (AE) is a rare, autosomal-recessive disorder of neonatal zinc deficiency due to SLC39A4 (intestinal zinc transporter, Zip4) gene mutation with onset after weaning while breastfeeding during this period will be protective. Transient symptomatic zinc deficiency is also acq...