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Urea Cycle Disorders
Urea Cycle Disorders (UCDs) are a group of rare inherited conditions that affect the body's ability to remove ammonia, a toxic waste product from the digestion of proteins. There are eight UCDs based on the lack of certain enzymes and proteins:
- N-acetylglutamate synthase (NAGS) deficiency
- Carbamoylphosphate synthetase I (CPS1) deficiency
- Ornithine transcarbamylase (OTC) deficiency
- Argininosuccinate synthase 1 (ASS1) deficiency or Citrullinemia type I
- Citrin deficiency or Citrullinemia type II
- Argininosuccinic lyase (ASL) deficiency
- Arginase (ARG) deficiency
- Ornithine translocase deficiency
The disorder can affect people of any age, but symptoms typically appear shortly after birth. They range from lethargy, nausea, vomiting and confusion to severe problems with cognitive development, behavioral changes and even coma. Doctors can diagnose UCDs through blood and urine tests, a physical exam and liver biopsy.
Treatment is focused on removing ammonia from the blood and involves maintaining a low-protein diet, protein supplementation through medical foods, medications to help remove ammonia from the blood and sometimes liver transplantation.
ZOIA Pharma, a Pentec company – the only medical food provider in the U.S. exclusively focused on supporting the rare disease community, including individuals living with UCDs – understands that the more appropriate nutrition options are available to people with inherited metabolic disorders, the more opportunities they have to stay healthy. That’s why we supply a broad range of specialized nutrition products and nutritional management services to empower patients and their families on the journey toward better health and well-being.
Learn how we can help those who require targeted nutrition with medical foods, low protein foods, enteral nutrition, comprehensive insurance support, home delivery services and more.
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