Clément Pontoizeau, Célina Roda, Jean-Baptiste Arnoux, Patricia Vignolo-Diard, Anais Brassier, Florence Habarou, Valérie Barbier, Coraline Grisel, Marie-Thérèse Abi-Warde, Nathalie Boddaert, Alice Kuster, Aude Servais, Anna Kaminska, Carole Hennequin, Laurent Dupic, Fabrice Lesage, Guy Touati, Vassili Valayannopoulos, Bernadette Chadefaux-Vekemans, Mehdi Oualha, Monika Eisermann, Chris Ottolenghi, Pascale de Lonlay
PURPOSE: We aimed to identify prognostic factors for survival and long-term intellectual and developmental outcome in neonatal patients with early-onset urea cycle disorders (UCD) experiencing hyperammonaemic coma. METHODS: We retrospectively analysed ammonia (NH3) and glutamine levels, electroencephalogram and brain images obtained during neonatal coma of UCD patients born between 1995 and 2011 and managed at a single centre and correlated them to survival and intellectual and developmental outcome...
June 2020: Molecular Genetics and Metabolism