Hyperammonemia is a condition in which a person has elevated levels of ammonia. Typical symptoms include irritability, vomiting, confusion, and other effects of swelling in the brain. People of all ...

The individual first received their multiple myeloma (MM) diagnosis in 2019. A new case study details a rare instance of a patient who developed hyperammonemia after achieving complete remission from ...

Higher than normal blood ammonia levels are called hyperammonemia. Acceptable levels depend on age and sex but range from about 42 µg/dL in infants to 200 µg/dL adults assigned male at birth. When you ...

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved a new indication for Carbaglu ® (carglumic acid; Recordati Rare Diseases) for use as adjunctive therapy in the treatment of acute hyperammonemia due ...

Purpose of study– Transient hyperammonemia of the newborn can lead to an overwhelming and potentially fatal illness. The etiology of this condition is obscure although hypoxia, immature urea cycle and ...

Ammonia is a toxic compound produced in the body from the catabolism of amino acids and protein. Hyperammonemia can damage muscle and brain. 1 The body converts ammonia to urea in the liver by means ...

HealthDay News — Severe hyperammonemia, resulting from ammonia that accumulates in stored blood products, should be considered in the setting of cirrhosis, according to a case report published online ...

Sandra A. Banta-Wright, MN, RNC, NNP; Robert D. Steiner, MD Neonates with profound and prolonged hyperammonemia with coma due to urea cycle defect will have had a neurological insult to the brain that ...

CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Synlogic, Inc., (Nasdaq: SYBX), a clinical stage company applying synthetic biology to beneficial microbes to develop novel, living medicines, today announced that ...

ZURICH--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Versantis AG, a clinical-stage company developing novel therapies for rare liver diseases and rare pediatric diseases, today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug ...

When the liver fails, brain function changes. Acute-on-chronic liver failure is manifested initially as abnormal behavior and compromised cognition. In the absence of preexisting disease, acute, ...