Neonatal intrahepatic cholestasis is a heterogeneous disease of undetermined cause. There is an unreported subset of idiopathic neonatal intrahepatic cholestasis with an unusual histological combination of hepatic siderosis and macrovesicular steatosis. The patients were a 34-day-old female and a
Neonatal hemochromatosis (NH) has been defined as neonatal liver disorder accompanied by extrahepatic siderosis, and gestational alloimmune liver disease (GALD) is the main cause of NH. We report an atypical case of NH that may have gone underdiagnosed. A male infant was born at term after an
Inherited and acquired factors have been implicated in the pathogenesis of porphyria cutanea tarda (PCT), a disorder characterized by a photosensitive dermatosis and hepatic siderosis. This study, comprising 108 patients with PCT, was intended to define the role of hemochromatosis gene (HFE)
Epigenetic influences mediating brain iron deposition, oxidative mitochondrial injury, and macroautophagy in Parkinson disease and related conditions remain enigmatic. Here, we show that selective overexpression of the stress protein, heme oxygenase-1 (HO-1) in astrocytes of GFAP.HMOX1 transgenic
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