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We report on an otherwise healthy female, mother of two children, with severe decompensated liver cirrhosis due to an iron overload and Wilson's disease. The patient was considered heterozygote for hemochromatosis on the basis of the autosomal recessive inheritance for hemochromatosis, the frequency of the hemochromatosis gene, and the laboratory parameters defining her iron overload. The case is interesting because of the coincidence of Wilson's disease and excessive iron storage.
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Hafkemeyer, P., Schupp, M., Storch, M. et al. Excessive iron storage in a patient with Wilson's disease. Clin Investig 72, 134–136 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00184590
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00184590