Article: Effects of Maternal PKU.(phenylketonuria)(Brief Article)

Article: Restricted Diet Essential for Maternal PKU ...
Family Practice News;  February 15, 2000 ;     700+ words ... ... children who were born to mothers with PKU will inherit an abnormal phenylalanine ... both parents and therefore will have PKU. The National Institutes of Health ... recommend guidelines for treatment of maternal PKU. The guidelines will probably not ...

Article: Consequences of Poor Maternal PKU ...
OB GYN News;  April 1, 2000 ;     606 words ... ... evaluated at earlier ages. The women with PKU had great trouble planning their pregnancies ... Only the children of mothers with PKU had low scores on the cognitive tests ... evidence that strict treatment for maternal PKU is crucial, they added.

Article: BioMarin Assembles Leading Metabolic Disease Experts to Guide its ...
PR Newswire;  February 2, 2004 ;     700+ words ... ... California; Principal Investigator, Maternal PKU Collaborative Study, Division ... Boston, Massachusetts; Director, Maternal PKU Program, Children's Hospital ... Nutrition Coordinator for the Maternal PKU Collaborative Study; Contributor ...

Article: BioMarin Announces Roll-Out of National PKU Registry.
PR Newswire;  August 21, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... the available data on a variety of PKU patient populations, including some ... children under four years of age and maternal PKU patients," said Jean-Jacques Bienaime ... BioMarin. "Approximately half of the PKU clinics have already expressed interest ...

Article: Evaluation of quality of life and description of the ...
Health and Quality of Life Outcomes;  March 26, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... introduction of newborn screening for PKU in Germany in the 1970s and the early ... the diet, mental retardation due to PKU has been almost eliminated. Raised ... exert adverse effects on the fetus (maternal PKU with microcephaly, growth retardation ...

Article: Poor PKU Control Harms Child.(Statistical Data Included)
Family Practice News;  April 1, 2000 ;     625 words ... ... olds; 149 were born to mothers with PKU who had poor metabolic control before ... Only the children of mothers with PKU had low scores on cognitive tests ... evidence that strict treatment of maternal PKU is crucial, the investigators said ...

Phenylketonuria (PKU).(Pediatric Advisor 2006)(Disease/Disorder ...
Clinical Reference Systems;  November 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ...What is phenylketonuria? Phenylketonuria (PKU) is a rare birth defect. A person who has PKU is missing an enzyme needed to process an amino ... building blocks for protein. For children with PKU, too much of this amino acid can be dangerous ...