Serological Response to Hepatitis Delta

do not know whether it is due to the effects of toxic compounds or whether it is a genetic association. Whether dietary manipulation will affect the development of obstructive cardiomyopathy remains to be seen; if it does, diagnosis would need to be made early in life. Whatever the aetiology of the cardiomyopathy, the association with tyrosinaemia suggests that caution should be expressed in counselling parents about prognosis for this disorder, particularly with regard to liver transplantation, which may not then be the curative approach that some have suggested.4