Successful living-donor liver transplantation from an asymptomatic carrier mother in ornithine transcarbamylase deficiency.

ABSTRACT

A liver transplantation from an asymptomatic mother, who was a carrier of ornithine transcarbamylase deficiency, to her daughter, who had severe manifestation, was successfully performed. One-year monitoring of plasma amino acid and urinary orotate/orotidine levels revealed no abnormality in the urea cycle in either subject.