Inherited metabolic disorders presenting as acute liver failure in newborns and young children: King’s College Hospital experience

European Journal of Pediatrics

Volumn 174, Issue 10, 2015, Pages 1387-1392

  Hegarty, Robert ^a   Hadzic, Nedim ^a   Gissen, Paul ^b   Dhawan, Anil ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE HOSPITAL NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^b GREAT ORMOND STREET HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Acute liver failure; Inherited metabolic disease; Liver transplantation; Pediatric

Indexed keywords

ACUTE LIVER FAILURE; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; CONGENITAL DISORDER OF GLYCOSYLATION TYPE 1B; DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDER; DISORDERS OF MITOCHONDRIAL FUNCTIONS; FEMALE; GALACTOSEMIA; HUMAN; INFANT; INHERITED METABOLIC DISORDER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METABOLIC DISORDER; MITOCHONDRIAL RESPIRATORY CHAIN DISORDER; NEWBORN; NEWBORN DISEASE; NIEMANN PICK DISEASE; ORNITHINE TRANSCARBAMYLASE DEFICIENCY; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURVIVAL RATE; COMPLICATION; FOLLOW UP; GENETICS; INCIDENCE; LIVER FAILURE, ACUTE; METABOLISM, INBORN ERRORS; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; UNITED KINGDOM; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL;

CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HOSPITALS, UNIVERSITY; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; LIVER FAILURE, ACUTE; METABOLISM, INBORN ERRORS; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL RATE; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 84942370330     PISSN: 03406199     EISSN: 14321076     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00431-015-2540-6     Document Type: Article

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