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MAPLE SYRUP URINE DISEASE
Author(s) -
Komrower G. M.
Publication year - 1968
Publication title -
developmental medicine and child neurology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.658
H-Index - 143
eISSN - 1469-8749
pISSN - 0012-1622
DOI - 10.1111/j.1469-8749.1968.tb02928.x
Subject(s) - maple syrup urine disease , citation , maple , medicine , library science , pediatrics , computer science , chemistry , biochemistry , leucine , botany , amino acid , biology
mg. per 100 ml. have been shown to respond to preventive phototherapy, though further studies. and particularly follow-up data, are needed to confirm these initial observations. If in the future hyperbilirubinemia is prevented in this way it will be interesting to see whether the development of non-jaundiced infants differs from that of infants who are at present exposed to neurotoxic concentrations of bulirubin though not suffering from manifest kernicterus. De Goesbriand Memorial Hospital, Burlington, Vermont 05401 , U.S.A.