Neonatal classic galactosemia-diagnosis, clinical profile and molecular characteristics in unscreened Turkish population.

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BACKGROUND: Classic galactosemia (CG) is a rare hereditary disease that can cause serious morbidity and death if it is not diagnosed and treated in early periods of life. Clinical findings usually occur in the neonatal period after the neonate is fed with milk that contains galactose. Most patients are presented with jaundice, hepatomegaly, hypoglycemia and cataracts. OBJECTIVE: We aimed to document the clinical,...

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