Severe speech delay as the presenting symptom of guanidinoacetate methyltransferase deficiency

Journal of Child Neurology

Volumn 22, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 773-774

  Vodopiutz, J ^a   Item, C B ^a   Hausler M ^b   Korall, H ^c   Bodamer, Olaf A ^a  

^a ST ANNA CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL RWTH AACHEN   (Germany)

^c Biochemical Disease Laboratory   (Germany)

Author keywords

Creatine; Guanidinoacetate methyltransferase deficiency; Seizures; Speech delay

Indexed keywords

CREATINE; GUANIDINOACETATE METHYLTRANSFERASE;

AGGRESSIVENESS; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; CASE REPORT; DISEASE SEVERITY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ENZYME DEFICIENCY; FEEDING DISORDER; GRAND MAL SEIZURE; HUMAN; MALE; MENTAL DEFICIENCY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; SCREENING TEST; SPEECH DISORDER; SYMPTOM;

AMINO ACID METABOLISM, INBORN ERRORS; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; GUANIDINOACETATE N-METHYLTRANSFERASE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT DISORDERS; MALE;

EID: 34447120039     PISSN: 08830738     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0883073807304015     Document Type: Article

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