Case Report
A Successful Living Donor Liver Transplantation Using Hepatic Iron Deposition Graft Suspected by Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Table 1
Summary of representative types in hereditary hemochromatosis.
| Category | Causative gene | Features |
| Type 1 | HFE | Most common HH category | Type 2A | HJV (hemojuvelin) | Onset at a younger age than the other HH categories; most severe form of systemic iron overload | Type 2B | HAMP (hepcidin) | Type 3 | TFR2 | Mutations in transferrin receptor 2; very rare | Type 4 | SLC40A1 (ferroportin) | Only HH category with elevated hepcidin level; more iron deposition located in the Kupffer cells than in hepatocytes |
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HH: hereditary hemochromatosis.
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