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We describe a male infant with congenital hyperammonaemia due to partial carbamylphosphate synthetase-I (CPS-I) deficiency. At 21 days of age, he had convulsions and at 53 days of age hyperammonaemic coma. Therapy with sodium benzoate, L-arginine, essential amino acids, L-carnitine and peritoneal dialysis lowered the blood ammonia levels, and his clinical manifestations improved. The CPS-I activity in liver tissue obtained by open biopsy was about 25.6% of normal values. The serum and urine free carnitine levels in the patient decreased during the hyperammonaemic crisis and were low at 7 months of age. After oral administration of L-carnitine (10 mg/kg per day) at 7 months of age, the mean blood ammonia levels decreased significantly, accompanied by an increase in serum and urine free carnitine levels. We propose the use of L-carnitine therapy to prevent secondary carnitine deficiency in patients with CPS-I deficiency as well as ornithine transcarbamylase (OTC) deficiency.
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