Medico-Social Management of Inherited Metabolic Disease : A Monograph Derived from The Proceedings of the Thirteenth Symposium of The Society for the Study of Inborn Errors of Metabolism

Name: Medico-Social Management of Inherited Metabolic Disease : A Monograph Derived from The Proceedings of the Thirteenth Symposium of The Society for the Study of Inborn Errors of Metabolism
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Medico-Social Management of Inherited Metabolic DiseaseA Monograph Derived from The Proceedings of the Thirteenth Symposium of The Society for the Study of Inborn Errors of Metabolism\nAuthor(s): D.N. Raine\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Springer, Netherlands\nImprint: Springer\nISBN-13: 9789401161756, 978-9401161756\nSynopsis\nThe study of inherited metabolic disease became a subject of more than academic interest in 1953 when Bickel, Gerrard and Hickmans dis covered that the totally disabling consequences of phenylketonuria could be prevented if treatment was instituted in the first months of life. This required the widespread screening of all newborn babies and 7 years later this had been successfully achieved in the United King dom. The next 10 years was a period of consolidation: screening methods were improved and extended to include other disorders; treatment of phenylketonuria was vastly improved with the stimulus of the increasing numbers of patients being detected, and rese.