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Phenylketonuria

open access: yesNature Reviews Disease Primers, 2021
Phenylketonuria (PKU; also known as phenylalanine hydroxylase (PAH) deficiency) is an autosomal recessive disorder of phenylalanine metabolism, in which especially high phenylalanine concentrations cause brain dysfunction. If untreated, this brain dysfunction results in severe intellectual disability, epilepsy and behavioural problems.
Francjan J, van Spronsen   +5 more
semanticscholar   +6 more sources

Evaluation of primary health care nurses’ knowledge and neonatal screening performance for phenylketonuria in Alexandria [PDF]

open access: yesBMC Nursing
Introduction 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
doaj   +2 more sources

Crianças com fenilcetonúria: avaliação audiológica básica e supressão das otoemissões Children with phenylketonuria: basic audiological evaluation and suppression of otoacoustic emissions [PDF]

open access: yesRevista 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
doaj   +3 more sources

Short-time anesthesia of a child with phenylketonuria: a case report

open access: yesBrazilian 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
doaj   +1 more source

Pretreatment cognitive and neural differences between sapropterin dihydrochloride responders and non-responders with phenylketonuria [PDF]

open access: yes, 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
core   +14 more sources

Helicobacter pylori Infection in Children with Phenylketonuria Does Not Depend on Metabolic Control and Is Not More Frequent Than in Healthy Subjects—A Cross-Sectional Study

open access: yesChildren, 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
doaj   +1 more source

Prevention of maternal phenylketonuria. Dietary management in the preconception period and during pregnancy

open access: yesPediatria 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
doaj   +1 more source

Impact of phenylketonuria type meal on appetite, thermic effect of feeding and postprandial fat oxidation [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
Background: Dietary management of phenylketonuria (PKU) requires the replacement of natural protein-containing foods with special low protein foods.
Alfheeaid, Hani   +5 more
core   +1 more source

Targeting mGlu5 metabotropic glutamate receptors in the treatment of cognitive dysfunction in a mouse model of phenylketonuria [PDF]

open access: yes, 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
core   +2 more sources

Dietary amino acid intakes associated with a low-phenylalanine diet combined with amino acid medical foods and glycomacropeptide medical foods and neuropsychological outcomes in subjects with phenylketonuria

open access: yesData in Brief, 2017
This article provides original data on median dietary intake of 18 amino acids from amino acid medical foods, glycomacropeptide medical foods, and natural foods based on 3-day food records obtained from subjects with phenylketonuria who consumed low ...
Bridget M. Stroup   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

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