A Late Presentation of a Fatal Disease: Juvenile Hemochromatosis
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A Late Presentation of a Fatal Disease: Juvenile Hemochromatosis
Juvenile hemochromatosis is a rare and severe form of hereditary hemochromatosis. We report the case of a 39-year-old female who presented with heart failure and cirrhosis from previously unrecognized juvenile hemochromatosis. This is the latest presentation described in the literature. An important clue to the diagnosis was a history of amenorrhea since the age of 20 that had never been invest...
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عنوان ژورنال: Case Reports in Medicine
سال: 2013
ISSN: 1687-9627,1687-9635
DOI: 10.1155/2013/875093