Hereditary tyrosinemia, type I. Based on two observations

Abstract

Two cases of type I hereditary tyrosinemia are presented. One of them died during a sepsis before beginnning a dietetic treatment; the other one, after having undergone a low in tirosine and fenilalanine diet from the age of 2 months, needed a liver transplant at the age of 7 months because of a severe hepatocelular failure and now evolving satisfactorily, after 5 years since the diagnostic was made.