The child who fainted was taken by ambulance to the hospital. Objectively: reflexes are absent, convulsions appear periodically, and breathing is inerrant. After laboratory examination, a hepatic coma was diagnosed. Accumulation of which metabolite in the blood leads to the appearance of disorders of the central nervous system?

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The child who fainted was taken by ambulance to the hospital. Objectively: reflexes are absent, convulsions appear periodically, and breathing is inerrant. After laboratory examination, a hepatic coma was diagnosed. Accumulation of which metabolite in the blood leads to the appearance of disorders of the central nervous system? 

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