title: Assessment of the infant with acute metabolic problems.
abstract: Those inborn errors of metabolism which characteristically produce acute illness during the first year of life often resemble infectious illnesses in their nonspecific modes of presentation. Grouping of signs and symptoms into prototypes, followed by an active search for clinical and laboratory clues with higher specificity, often proves helpful in making an appropriate choice of confirmatory diagnostic tests.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pediatrics, University of Nebraska College of Medicine, Omaha 68198-2165.
authors.forename: H E
authors.initials: HE
authors.lastname: Wiltse
mesh_terms: D000208:Acute Disease; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D008661:Metabolism, Inborn Errors / Q000175:diagnosis*