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  2. Glycine encephalopathy - Wikipedia

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    Glycine encephalopathy is a rare autosomal recessive disorder of glycine metabolism. After phenylketonuria , glycine encephalopathy is the second most common disorder of amino acid metabolism. The disease is caused by defects in the glycine cleavage system , an enzyme responsible for glycine catabolism.

  3. Encephalopathy - Wikipedia

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    Early infantile epileptic encephalopathy (acquired or congenital abnormal cortical development). Early myoclonic epileptic encephalopathy (possibly due to metabolic disorders). Gluten encephalopathy: Focal abnormalities of the white matter (generally area of low perfusion) are appreciated through magnetic resonance. Migraine is the most common ...

  4. MELAS syndrome - Wikipedia

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    MELAS (Mitochondrial Encephalopathy, Lactic Acidosis, and Stroke-like episodes) is one of the family of mitochondrial diseases, which also include MIDD (maternally inherited diabetes and deafness), MERRF syndrome, and Leber's hereditary optic neuropathy.

  5. Ethylmalonic encephalopathy - Wikipedia

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    Ethylmalonic encephalopathy is an autosomal recessive disorder, which means the defective gene is located on an autosome, and both parents must carry one copy of the defective gene in order to have a child born with the disorder. The parents of a child with an autosomal recessive disorder are usually not affected by the disorder.

  6. Hepatic encephalopathy - Wikipedia

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    Average life expectancy less than a year in those with severe disease [1] Frequency: Affects >40% with cirrhosis [7] Hepatic encephalopathy ... metabolic disturbance:

  7. Toxic leukoencephalopathy - Wikipedia

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    Posterior reversible encephalopathy syndrome (PRES) can also result from medication toxicity. [4] [8] [12] Symptoms similar to those of leukoencephalopathy patients have been seen in PRES patients. However, the prognosis of toxic leukoencephalopathy is typically slightly worse than that of PRES because toxic leukoencephalopathy is more likely ...

  8. Wernicke encephalopathy - Wikipedia

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    Wernicke encephalopathy (WE), also Wernicke's encephalopathy, [1] or wet brain is the presence of neurological symptoms caused by biochemical lesions of the central nervous system after exhaustion of B-vitamin reserves, in particular thiamine (vitamin B 1). [2]

  9. Ornithine transcarbamylase deficiency - Wikipedia

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    In the classic and most well-known presentation, a male infant appears well initially, but by the second day of life they are irritable, lethargic and stop feeding. A metabolic encephalopathy develops, and this can progress to coma and death without treatment. [4]