Urea cycle disorders: clinical features
Evidence-based neurology checklist on urea cycle disorders: clinical features: Types of urea cycle disorders Argininaemia: arginase deficiency (ARG1D) Argininosucciniaciduria: argininosuccinase acid lyase deficiency (ASLD) Citrullineamia type I: argininosuccinic acid synthase deficiency (ASSD)…
Types of urea cycle disorders
- Argininaemia: arginase deficiency (ARG1D)
- Argininosucciniaciduria: argininosuccinase acid lyase deficiency (ASLD)
- Citrullineamia type I: argininosuccinic acid synthase deficiency (ASSD)
- Citrullinemia type II
- HHH syndrome: hyperornithinemia, hyperammonemia, homocitrullinuria
- Carbamyl phosphate synthase I deficiency (CPS1D)
- Ornithine transcarbamylase deficiency (OTCD)
- N-acetylglutamate synthase deficiency (NAGSD)
Onset features
Acute encephalopathic features
Chronic features
Differential diagnosis
Poor prognostic features
References
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- Blair NF, Cremer PD, Tchan MC. Urea cycle disorders: a life-threatening yet treatable cause of metabolic encephalopathy in adults. Pract Neurol 2015; 15:45-48.
- Seminara J, Tuchman M, Krivitzky L, et al. Establishing a consortium for the study of rare diseases: The Urea Cycle Disorders Consortium. Mol Genet Metab 2010; 100(Suppl 1):S97-S105.
- Oechsner M, Steen C, Stürenburg HJ, Kohlschütter A. Hyperammonaemic encephalopathy after initiation of valproate therapy in unrecognised ornithine transcarbamylase deficiency. JNNP 1998; 64:680-682.
- Lopes FF, Sitta A, de Moura Coelho D, et al. Clinical findings of patients with hyperammonemia affected by urea cycle disorders with hepatic encephalopathy. Int J Dev Neurosci 2022; 82:772-788.
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