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Long-term prognosis in galactosaemia: Results of a survey of 350 cases

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Journal of Inherited Metabolic Disease

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An international survey of the long term results of treating galactosaemia has shown poor results. These do not seem to be related to any of the relevant variables studied, for example delayed diagnosis or poor dietary compliance.

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  1. Crippled Children's Division, Oregon Health Sciences University, USA

    D. D. Waggoner

  2. Southern California School of Medicine and Children's Hospital of Los Angeles, USA

    G. N. Donnell

  3. Pediatric Metabolic Laboratory, L-473, Oregon Health Sciences University, 3181 S.W. Sam Jackson Park Road, 97201, Portland, OR, USA

    N. R. M. Buist

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Other reviews of galactosaemia and related subjects appear in Vol. 13 part 4 (1990).

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Waggoner, D.D., Buist, N.R.M. & Donnell, G.N. Long-term prognosis in galactosaemia: Results of a survey of 350 cases. J Inherit Metab Dis 13, 802–818 (1990). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01800204

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