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    Hyperammonemia, or high ammonia levels, is a metabolic disturbance characterised by an excess of ammonia in the blood. It is a dangerous condition that...
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    presentation, any affected individual is at risk for an episode of hyperammonemia that could still be life-threatening, if presented with the appropriate...
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    Ornithine translocase deficiency, also called hyperornithinemia-hyperammonemia-homocitrullinuria (HHH) syndrome, is a rare autosomal recessive urea cycle...
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  • become elevated all the way back up the cycle to NH+ 4, resulting in hyperammonemia (elevated [NH+ 4]P). Although the root cause of NH+ 4 toxicity is not...
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  • Hyperinsulinism-hyperammonemia syndrome (HI/HA) is an autosomal dominant disorder that results in the excess production of insulin and ammonia in mammals...
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    November 2017. Rett initially called this syndrome cerebroaatrophic hyperammonemia, but the elevated ammonia levels in the bloodstream were later found...
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    consistent results.[medical citation needed] Lactulose is useful in treating hyperammonemia (high blood ammonia), which can lead to hepatic encephalopathy. Lactulose...
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  • Transient hyperammonemia of the newborn (THAN) is an idiopathic disorder occasionally present in preterm newborns but not always symptomatic. Continuous...
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    blood (hyperammonemia). Likewise, defects in the enzymes responsible for the urea cycle, such as ornithine transcarbamylase, lead to hyperammonemia. Hyperammonemia...
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    storage diseases may show transient exercise-induced alkalosis (high pH), hyperammonemia, and myogenic hyperuricemia. During a non-ischemic forearm exercise...
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  • computer game Hungry Hungry Hippos, a 1978 tabletop game Hyperornithinemia-hyperammonemia-homocitrullinuria syndrome, a genetic disorder HHH(1,13), a run-length...
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  • tone. Without treatment, death can occur quickly, due to secondary hyperammonemia, infection, cardiomyopathy, or brain damage. Propionic acidemia can...
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    placebo. Sodium benzoate, along with phenylbutyrate, is used to treat hyperammonemia. Sodium benzoate, along with caffeine, is used to treat postdural puncture...
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    same, while in severe cases symptoms can advance to amino aciduria and hyperammonemia. In a large Asian series of Distal renal Tubular Acidosis in Sjogren's...
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    an X-linked recessive pattern. OTC deficiency is also accompanied by hyperammonemia and high orotic acid levels. BUN is usually reported in mg/dL in some...
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    Giménez-Garzó, C; González-Usano, A; Felipo, V (June 2013). "Chronic hyperammonemia, glutamatergic neurotransmission and neurological alterations". Metabolic...
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    It's mainly seen in diseases that cause increased levels of ammonia (hyperammonemia), such as chronic liver disease and Wilson's disease. They are not associated...
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    builds up in the blood plasma as ammonia glutamine (a state called hyperammonemia) due to deficiences in the enzymes carbamoyl phosphate synthetase I...
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  • disorder. Anti-NMDA receptor encephalitis: An auto-immune encephalitis. Hyperammonemia: A condition caused by high levels of ammonia, which is due to inborn...
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    injury, excessive blood loss, malnutrition, hypothermia, hyperthermia, hyperammonemia, abnormal glucose levels, and many other biological disorders. Furthermore...
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    Carglumic acid is indicated for the treatment of acute hyperammonemia and chronic hyperammonemia. "Prescription medicines: registration of new chemical...
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    arginine to avoid an excess of ammonia in the blood, otherwise known as hyperammonemia, isoleucine, leucine, valine, lysine, methionine as a sulfur-containing...
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    also prophylactically in high risk patients. Acetyl-L-carnitine lowers hyperammonemia less markedly than L-carnitine. Valproate inhibits CYP2C9, glucuronyl...
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    in humans. In another metabolic disorder, in the hyperornithinemia-hyperammonemia-homocitrullinuria (HHH) syndrome, first described in 1969, ornithine...
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    Isoelectric EEG Respiratory arrest Seizures Multiple organ failure Flaccidity Hyperammonemia (above 300 mg/dL of blood) Death The cause of Reye syndrome is unknown...
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    people who take megadoses of nutritional supplements and vitamins. Hyperammonemia, elevated level of ammonia in blood (including cerebral edema/intracranial...
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    production and diclofenac production. It is also employed to treat type II hyperammonemia to help reduce the amounts of ammonia in a patient's bloodstream by...
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  • identity disorder (DID) Side effect of some anti-epilepsy drugs (AEDs) Hyperammonemia Eclampsia and, rarely, pre-eclampsia The most common causes of congenital...
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    metabolic disorders can include ketolactic acidosis, organic aciduria, hyperammonemia, rash, hypotonia, seizures, developmental delay, alopecia and coma....
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    accumulates in the blood stream and crosses the blood–brain barrier. Hyperammonemia in central nervous system (CNS) cells causes oxidative stress and mitochrondrial...
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