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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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) – For patients with cirrhosis, hyperammonemia induced by an amino acid challenge (AAC) leads to an increase in daytime subjective sleepiness and changes in sleep patterns. Alessia ...

Gut microbes have been engineered to have reduced urease activity in a bid to ameliorate hyperammonemia. In a proof-of-concept study, the existing gut microbiota was depleted in mice before ...

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 ...

Saleh Alqahtani and colleagues have provided a welcome reminder that hyperammonemia is a common side effect of valproate therapy.1 However, I am not convinced that hyperammonemia is a benign ...