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Query: UMLS:C0038002 (splenomegaly)
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Alpha-1-antitrypsin is a blood glycoprotein synthesized in the liver. It is a protease inhibitor of the serpine group and has a specific action for elastase. Alpha-1-antitrypsin electrophoresis shows about 20 phenotypes, the normal one being PiM. The allele PiZ is usually responsible for liver or lung disease in children or adults, respectively. Eleven per cent of PiZZ infants present with prolonged neonatal cholestasis. Twenty-five of 45 PiZZ infants with prolonged neonatal cholestasis presented with later cirrhosis. Persistence of jaundice beyond the sixth month of age, early development of splenomegaly, persistence of hard hepatomegaly and liver function abnormalities, and early portal fibrosis have a poor prognostic significance. The most severe course occurs in infants with an early histologic pattern of paucity of interlobular bile ducts. Portal hypertension was present in 19 of 25 children presenting with cirrhosis; 8 of 25 PiZZ children with cirrhosis died during childhood.
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PMID:[Alpha 1-antitrypsin deficiency in childhood]. 387 73