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Case report

Acute liver failure due to previously unrecognised dilated cardiomyopathy in a 17-year-old boy with Duchenne muscular dystrophy

Kamil Janowski
1
,
Lidia Ziółkowska
2
,
Agnieszka Boruc
2
,
Katarzyna Witulska
3
,
Maria Janowska
4
,
Marek Stefanowicz
4
,
Wioletta Jarmużek
5
,
Joanna Pawłowska
1

  1. Department of Gastroenterology, Hepatology, Nutritional Disorders, and Paediatrics, The Children’s Memorial Health Institute, Warsaw, Poland
  2. Department of Cardiology, The Children’s Memorial Health Institute, Warsaw, Poland
  3. Department of Anaesthesiology, The Children’s Memorial Health Institute, Warsaw, Poland
  4. Department of Paediatric Surgery and Organ Transplantation, The Children’s Memorial Health Institute, Warsaw, Poland
  5. Department of Nephrology, The Children’s Memorial Health Institute, Warsaw, Poland
Pediatr Pol 2020; 95 (3): 178–183
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5114/polp.2020.99465
Online publish date: 2020/10/30
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