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A condition occurring in untreated or partially treated females with PHENYLKETONURIA when they become pregnant. This may result in damages to the FETUS, including MICROCEPHALY; MENTAL RETARDATION; congenital heart disease; FETAL GROWTH RETARDATION; and CRANIOFACIAL ABNORMALITIES. (From Am J Med Genet 1997 Mar 3;69(1):89-95)
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- Maternal Phenylalanine Hydroxylase Deficiency Disease
- PKU, Maternal
- Phenylalanine-Hydroxylase Deficiency Disease, Maternal
- Phenylketonuria, Maternal
- Pregnancy in Phenylketonuria
- Phenylalanine Hydroxylase Deficiency Disease, Maternal
- Phenylketonuria, Pregnancy in
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Indexed with the subheadings blood, cerebrospinal fluid, chemically induced, classification, diagnosis, diagnostic imaging, diet therapy, drug therapy, economics, enzymology, epidemiology, ethnology, etiology, genetics, history, immunology, metabolism, microbiology, mortality, nursing, parasitology, pathology, physiopathology, prevention & control, psychology, radiotherapy, rehabilitation, surgery, therapy, urine, veterinary, virology.
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check the tags PREGNANCY & FEMALE; consider also PHENYLALANINE HYDROXYLASE /defic
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1992
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- Phenylketonuria (1966-1991)
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- National Library of Medicine. Maternal Phenylketonuria. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D017042. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D017042
- Maternal Phenylketonuria. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q68430440