1969
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8749.1969.tb01465.x
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Maple Syrup Urine Disease

Abstract: SUMMARY A case of maple syrup urine disease is presented, with a discussion of the characteristic clinical syndrome of neonatal feeding difficulty, lethargy, respiratory irregularity, seizures and opisthotonos The biochemical abnormality in the oxidative decarboxylation of the keto‐acids of valine, leucine and isoleucine is described, and an approach to dietary therapy, by carefully controlling the amino‐acid composition of the diet, is outlined. The pathological findings are widespread, but with especially ma… Show more

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