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M Summar1, J Pietsch, J Deshpande
1Department of Pediatrics, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee 37232, USA.
The Journal of Pediatrics
|March 1, 1996
Abstract:
Two infants with urea cycle disorders had life-threatening hyperammonemia within the first 5 days of life. Both patients were small for dates, poorly oxygenated, and hemodynamically unstable. We employed a combination of extracorporeal oxygenation and hemodialysis to provide high-flow filtration in a controlled system to rapidly detoxify both patients.