Stupor in an adolescent following Yom Kippur fast, due to late-onset ornithine transcarbamylase deficiency

Isr Med Assoc J. 2008 May;10(5):395-6.
No abstract available

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Adolescent
  • Ceremonial Behavior
  • Confusion / etiology
  • Fasting / adverse effects*
  • Humans
  • Hyperammonemia / etiology
  • Israel
  • Liver Diseases / etiology
  • Male
  • Mitochondrial Diseases / etiology
  • Mutation, Missense
  • Ornithine Carbamoyltransferase Deficiency Disease / diagnosis*
  • Ornithine Carbamoyltransferase Deficiency Disease / genetics
  • Ornithine Carbamoyltransferase Deficiency Disease / therapy
  • Religion
  • Stupor