Homocystinuria: a rare condition presenting as stroke in a child having sickle cell disease (heterozygous

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Geetanjali Sethy., Nasreen Ali and Lord Bikramjit Routray

Homocystinuria is an inborn error of amino acid metabolism in which homocystine accumulates in the blood and produces a slowly evolving clinical syndrome. We are presenting a case of a 14-year-old male child who presented to us with stroke. He was diagnosed as having homocystinuria and was found to have sickle cell trait, and he responded to treatment.

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http://dx.doi.org/10.24327/ijcar.2018.14575.2647
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