Evaluation of primary health care nurses’ knowledge and neonatal screening performance for phenylketonuria in Alexandria [PDF]
BMC NursingIntroduction Nurses play a crucial role in the primary prevention of phenylketonuria (PKU) within national screening programs for newborns. This is achieved through consult with the child’s provider promptly to arrange a PKU test, accurate collection of ...
Esraa Mohammed Abd El-Samie Ismail +3 more
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Crianças com fenilcetonúria: avaliação audiológica básica e supressão das otoemissões Children with phenylketonuria: basic audiological evaluation and suppression of otoacoustic emissions [PDF]
Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Fonoaudiologia, 2012 OBJETIVO: Avaliar a via auditiva de crianças com fenilcetonúria tratadas precocemente, por meio de audiometria, imitanciometria e supressão das emissões otoacústicas transientes. MÉTODOS:Estudo prospectivo transversal comparativo com amostra composta por
Patrícia Souza Ribeiro +4 more
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Short-time anesthesia of a child with phenylketonuria: a case report
Brazilian Journal of Anesthesiology, 2021 Phenylketonuria is a rare disorder that increases the levels of phenylalanine in the blood. As there are scant articles about anesthesia management in phenylketonuria patients, this encouraged us to report a short-time anesthesia management of a child ...
Masoud Tarbiat +3 more
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Pretreatment cognitive and neural differences between sapropterin dihydrochloride responders and non-responders with phenylketonuria [PDF]
, 2017 Sapropterin dihydrochloride (BH4) reduces phenylalanine (Phe) levels and improves white matter integrity in a subset of individuals with phenylketonuria (PKU) known as “responders.” Although prior research has identified biochemical and genotypic ...
Christ, Shawn E +5 more
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Children, 2021 In a small preliminary study, phenylketonuria and poor metabolic control were suggested as risk factors for Helicobacter pylori infection in children as detected with an antigen stool test.
Marek Walkowiak +9 more
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Pediatria i Medycyna Rodzinna, 2018 Phenylketonuria (Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man 261600) is the most common genetic autosomal recessive disease affecting metabolism. This diet-dependent condition is found in Poland in 1:8,000 live births.
Joanna Żółkowska +2 more
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Targeting mGlu5 metabotropic glutamate receptors in the treatment of cognitive dysfunction in a mouse model of phenylketonuria [PDF]
, 2018 We studied group-I metabotropic glutamate (mGlu) receptors in Pah(enu2) (ENU2) mice, which mimic the genetics and neurobiology of human phenylketonuria (PKU), a metabolic disorder characterized, if untreated, by autism, and intellectual disability (ID ...
Battaglia, Giuseppe +12 more
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Global prevalence of classic phenylketonuria based on Neonatal Screening Program Data: systematic review and meta-analysis [PDF]
Clinical and Experimental Pediatrics, 2020 Phenylketonuria is a disease caused by congenital defects in phenylalanine metabolism that leads to irreversible nerve cell damage. However, its detection in the early days of life can reduce its severity.
Hamid Reza Shoraka +4 more
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Central precocious puberty in a 3 year-old girl with Phenylketonuria: a rare association? [PDF]
, 2014 Background Central precocious puberty (CPP) and phenylketonuria (PKU) are two rare conditions, the latter being the rarer. To date, only one case featuring both these conditions has been reported, and hyperphenylalaninemia was assumed triggering CPP.
Donaldson, Malcolm +3 more
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Erythrocytes as Carriers of Therapeutic Enzymes. [PDF]
, 2020 Therapeutic enzymes are administered for the treatment of a wide variety of diseases. They exert their effects through binding with a high affinity and specificity to disease-causing substrates to catalyze their conversion to a non-noxious product, to ...
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