Different types of hyperammonemia in clinical practice

Abstract

Hyperammonemia is a metabolic disorder, which is caused as a result of high levels of ammonia present in the blood. Hyperammonemia is related to severe liver diseases, primarily to cirrhosis in 90% of cases. Non-cirrhotic causes should be considered in the remaining 10%. The article describes various causes and clinical features of hyperammonemia related to the pre-cirrhotic stages of liver disease, especially to non-alcoholic fatty dystrophy. The authors also provide other etiologies that cause hyperammonemia of varying severity, from minimal to very severe, leading to fatal outcome. The paper provides an analysis of the efficacy of L-ornithine-L-aspartate in hyperammonemia, and the results of own original author’s pharmaceutical equivalence study of the original and generic drug L-ornithine-L-aspartate.