title: [A guide to the clinical diagnosis and urgent treatment of neonatal hyperammonaemia].
abstract: Symptomatic hyperammonaemia in newborn is a medical emergency that should be recognised in its early stages, specifically diagnosed and aggressively treated to improve the immediate and long-term prognosis of these children. The paediatrician and the neonatal doctor should have a diagnosis-therapy scheme for its urgent management.
authors.affiliation: Unidad de Trastornos Metabólicos, Departamento de Pediatría, Hospital Clínico Universitario, Santiago de Compostela, España. maria.luz.couce.pico@sergas.es
authors.forename: M L
authors.initials: ML
authors.lastname: Couce
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Bustos
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: García-Alix
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Lázaro
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Martínez-Pardo
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Molina
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Sáenz de Pipaón
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Serrano
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Sanjurjo
mesh_terms: D003663:Decision Trees; D004638:Emergency Treatment; D006801:Humans; D022124:Hyperammonemia / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000209:etiology / Q000628:therapy*; D007231:Infant, Newborn