Successful treatment of infantile oxysterol 7α-hydroxylase deficiency with oral chenodeoxycholic acid

Abstract Background Deficiency of oxysterol 7α-hydroxylase, encoded by CYP7B1, is associated with fatal infantile progressive intrahepatic cholestasis and hereditary spastic paraplegia type 5. Most reported patients with CYP7B1 mutations presenting with liver disease in infancy have died of liver fa...

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Main Authors: Yun-Ping Tang, Jing-Yu Gong, Kenneth D. R. Setchell, Wujuan Zhang, Jing Zhao, Jian-She Wang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2021-04-01
Series:BMC Gastroenterology
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1186/s12876-021-01749-x