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Digestive System Diseases > Liver Diseases > Fatty Liver > Reye Syndrome
Nutritional and Metabolic Diseases > Metabolic Diseases > Brain Diseases, Metabolic > Reye Syndrome
Nervous System Diseases > Central Nervous System Diseases > Brain Diseases > Brain Diseases, Metabolic > Reye Syndrome

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Reye Syndrome  

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  • Topical Descriptor

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Entry terms

  • Fatty Liver with Encephalopathy
  • Reye Johnson Syndrome
  • Reye-Johnson Syndrome
  • Reye's Syndrome

Scope note

  • A form of encephalopathy with fatty infiltration of the LIVER, characterized by brain EDEMA and VOMITING that may rapidly progress to SEIZURES; COMA; and DEATH. It is caused by a generalized loss of mitochondrial function leading to disturbances in fatty acid and CARNITINE metabolism.

History note

  • 1998(1977)

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http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D012202

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