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Phenylalanine tolerance in three phenylketonuric women pregnant with fetuses of different genetic PKU status.
Journal of inherited metabolic disease - 1 Dec 2009
Kohlschütter B, Ellerbrok M, Merkel M, Tchirikov M, Zschocke J, Santer R, Ullrich K
Abstract excerpt
Pregnancy management in phenylketonuric women includes continuous dietary control starting before conception, aiming to maintain blood phenylalanine concentrations in a desirable range, irrespective of the fetal genetic PKU status. While the maternal phenylalanine hydroxylase (PAH) genotype will influence metabolic control, an effect of the fetal genetic PKU status on maternal metabolic control during pregnancy...
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