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Serendipitous detection of α1-antitrypsin deficiency: a single institution’s experience over a 32 month period

  • Thomas Cronin ORCID logo , Erum Rasheed , Aifric Naughton , Noel G. McElvaney , Tomás P. Carroll , Vivion E.F. Crowley and Niall Conlon EMAIL logo

Corresponding author: Dr. Niall Conlon, Consultant Immunologist, Department of Immunology, St James’s Hospital, Dublin 8, Ireland; and Department of Immunology, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland, E-mail:

  1. Research funding: None declared

  2. Author contributions: All authors have accepted responsibility for the entire content of this manuscript and approved its submission.

  3. Competing interests: Authors state no conflict of interest.

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Received: 2020-11-24
Accepted: 2021-01-12
Published Online: 2021-01-26
Published in Print: 2021-06-25

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