Commonly Used Seizure Drug Could Treat Severe Genetic Liver Disease Finds Pitt, Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC Team
PITTSBURGH, June 3 – The liver scarring of α1-antitrypsin (AT) deficiency, the most common genetic cause for which children undergo liver transplantation, might be reversed or prevented with a medication that has long been used to treat seizures, according to findings from Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC and the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine that will published in Science and are available online today through the Science Express website.Because the anti-seizure drug is familiar to doctors and has a well-