Prognosis for Phenylketonuria: With careful dietary supervision, children born with PKU can lead normal lives, and mothers who have the disease can produce healthy children. (Source: Genes and Disease by the National Center for Biotechnology) ...see also Overview of Phenylketonuria
Onset of Phenylketonuria: usually within months of birth
Complications of Phenylketonuria may include:
Complications of Phenylketonuria from the Diseases Database include:
See also complications of Phenylketonuria.
The 'prognosis' of Phenylketonuria usually refers to the likely outcome of Phenylketonuria. The prognosis of Phenylketonuria may include the duration of Phenylketonuria, chances of complications of Phenylketonuria, probable outcomes, prospects for recovery, recovery period for Phenylketonuria, survival rates, death rates, and other outcome possibilities in the overall prognosis of Phenylketonuria. Naturally, such forecast issues are by their nature unpredictable.
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