Hemochromatosis Presenting with Ascites in a Newborn Infant

• Main Authors: Samet Benli (Author), Mustafa Aydin (Author), Erdal Taskin (Author), Atika Çağlar (Author), Ahmet Kürşad Poyraz (Author), Ibrahim Hanifi Özercan (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, 2022-10-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Background: Although the incidence of neonatal hemochromatosis (NH) is not known exactly, it is one of the causes of acute liver failure in the newborns. NH is a rare iron metabolism disease characterized by excessive iron accumulation in the tissues that onsets in-utero. Here, a patient diagnosed w...