Hyperammonaemia in critically ill septic infants

Archives of Disease in Childhood

Volumn 84, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 512-513

  McEwan, P ^a   Simpson, D ^a   Kirk, J M ^a   Barr, D G D ^a   McKenzie, K J ^a  

^a ROYAL HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Hyperammonaemic encephalopathy; Infant sepsis; Urea splitting organisms

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA; ARGININE; ARYLBUTYRIC ACID DERIVATIVE; BENZOIC ACID; UREA;

AMMONIA BLOOD LEVEL; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BRAIN DISEASE; BRAIN EDEMA; BRAIN HYPOXIA; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CASE REPORT; CORYNEBACTERIUM; CRITICAL ILLNESS; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERAMMONEMIA; INFANT; INTENSIVE CARE; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEUS; PYONEPHROSIS; SEPSIS; SUBPHRENIC ABSCESS; URETEROCELE; FATALITY; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; NEWBORN;

AMMONIA; CRITICAL ILLNESS; FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERAMMONEMIA; HYPOXIA-ISCHEMIA, BRAIN; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INTENSIVE CARE; MALE; SEPSIS;

EID: 0035377278     PISSN: 00039888     EISSN: 14682044     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/adc.84.6.512     Document Type: Article

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