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Acute hyperammonaemic encephalopathy in a female newborn caused by a novel, de novo mutation in the ornithine transcarbamylase gene.
Acta paediatrica (Oslo, Norway : 1992) - 1 May 2004
Valik D, Sedova Z, Starha J, Zeman J, Hruba E, Dvorakova L
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UNLABELLED: A full-term female offspring of a first and uneventful pregnancy presented at 60 h of life with irritability, tachypnea and respiratory alkalosis progressing to deep coma with clinically dominant circulatory failure, tachycardia and hypotension. Diagnosis of ornithine transcarbamylase (OTC) deficiency was made on the basis of hyperammonaemia, hypocitrullinaemia and extreme hyperexcretion of orotic...
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