Premium
Three instances of neonatal death with hyperammonaemia, each resulting from a different cause
Author(s) -
Palmer T.,
Oberholzer V. G.,
Burgess E. Ann,
Mantagos S.
Publication year - 1980
Publication title -
journal of inherited metabolic disease
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.462
H-Index - 102
eISSN - 1573-2665
pISSN - 0141-8955
DOI - 10.1007/bf02312532
Subject(s) - queen (butterfly) , citation , medicine , history , pediatrics , library science , computer science , biology , hymenoptera , botany
We report here the results of a study of three unrelated patients, K., M. and R., each of whom died in the neonatal period in St Sophia's Children's Hospital, Athens, Greece, after a normal pregnancy and delivery. Liver functions tests and blood cultures gave normal results in each case and autopsy did not reveal any specific findings. All had gross hyperammonaemia and were considered to have possible urea cycle defects.