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organic acidemia

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acidemia /ac·i·de·mia/ (as″ĭ-de´me-ah) increased acidity of the blood. For those characterized by increased concentration of a specific acid, see at the acid.
organic acidemia  increased concentration of one or more organic acids in the blood.

organic acidemia
A clinical presentation of a metabolic disorder, often first seen in infants who present with poor feeding, vomiting, tachypnea, acidosis, hyperammonemia, ketosis, ketonuria, irritability, and convulsions or hypotonia and lethargy, findings that are otherwise suggestive of neonatal sepsis Diseases with OA Isovaleric and propionic acidemias, maple syrup urine disease, medium chain acyl dehydrogenase deficiency, glutaric, methylmalonic, formiminoglutamic acidurias


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