Article
Nutritional and Therapeutic Strategies in Paediatric Phenylketonuria: A Narrative Literature Review
2026-03-30
Abstract excerpt
Phenylketonuria (PKU) is an autosomal recessive disorder characterised by an inborn error of phenylalanine (Phe) metabolism. Such errors are attributed to pathogenic gene variants causing phenylalanine hydroxylase (PAH) deficiency, impairing the hydroxylation of phenylalanine to tyrosine in the Phe metabolic pathway. This defect leads to plasma Phe concentrations above the normal range. If untreated, hyperphenylal...
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- Literature Corpus work
- c2553ec3-6790-5f36-b80f-63ac001102f6
- DOI
- 10.20944/preprints202603.2280.v1
