Tạp chí Y học Thành phố Hồ Chí Minh, 17(2):98. DOI
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Ngô Minh Xuân*, Vũ Tề Đăng**
Từ khóa: galactosemia, rối loạn chuyển hóa.
A REPORT OF GALACTOSEMIA DIAGNOSED AND MANAGED AFTER BIRTH AT TU DU HOSPITAL, VIETNAM
Ngo Minh Xuan, Vu Te Dang * Y Hoc TP. Ho Chi Minh * Vol. 17 - Supplement of No 2 - 2013: 98 - 102
In the treatment of infant diseases, the detection of pathological metabolic disorders is very difficult. Because there are no screening programs for all newborns after births at Vietnam. Infact, feeding an infant immediately after birth is necessary for children to survive outside the womb, but it may cause a severe problem if the baby have a metabolic disorders. Pathological galactose metabolic disorders is one of the metabolic disorders in infants. The disease is usually detected late and the baby may die before having a final cause. This report aims to inform other colleague a special case that has been diagnosed and help us to have more experience about galactosemia.
Detecting pathological galactose metabolic disorders is not too difficult, but it requires a good screening and a careful treatment. In Vietnam, families that have a children suffering from this disease have to sacrify one or two first baby because we have not implemented a screening program of 48 types of these diseases congenital metabolic disorders. The screening is not too complicated but is quite expensive and we have to send samples to others countries, so the returned results is also quite slow. Through this report cases may help to find out a solution for diagnosis of pathological metabolic disorders in children that may be diagnosed as dead of unknown causes. We hope the program of medical screening for metabolic disorders can be deployed in and is widely implemented for all children born in Vietnam.
Key words: galactosemia, diagnose.