Assuming that the majority of the 59 patients with PH reported was classified as PH1, it is postulated that morbidity of violent infantile PH1 in Japan might be less than those in the USA and Europe, and symptoms of elderly Japanese PH1 patients seem to be milder than those of Western patients. Establishment of an early detection system of PH1 and more popular application of combined liver/kidney transplantation deserve further study.
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