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Feigning Acute Intermittent Porphyria [PDF]

Case Reports in Psychiatry, 2014
Acute intermittent porphyria (AIP) is an autosomal dominant genetic defect in heme synthesis. Patients with this illness can have episodic life-threatening attacks characterized by abdominal pain, neurological deficits, and psychiatric symptoms. Feigning
Rania Elkhatib, Modupe Idowu, Gregory S. Brown, Yasmeen M. Jaber, Matthew B. Reid, Cheryl Person   +5 more
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Successful Pregnancy After Combined Liver and Renal Transplantation in a Patient With Acute Intermittent Porphyria [PDF]

Case Reports in Transplantation
Acute intermittent porphyria is a rare inborn disease of porphyrin metabolism which can cause severe abdominal pain attacks and neurological symptoms. Here, we report a patient with a 20-year history of severe chronic manifestations of acute intermittent
Petro E. Petrides, Joachim Andrassy, Markus Guba, Manfred Stangl, Olivia Bronisch, Maria K. Beykirch   +5 more
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Unmasked acute intermittent porphyria in a patient with COVID-19-associated posterior reversible encephalopathy syndrome [PDF]

BMC Neurology
Background Acute intermittent porphyria (AIP) is a rare but treatable disease. COVID-19 has various possible complications including posterior reversible encephalopathy syndrome (PRES).
Hideo Handa, Hiroki Masuda, Satoki Hanayama, Amika Kajiyama, Sawako Suzuki, Atsuhiko Sugiyama, Koutaro Yokote, Satoshi Kuwabara   +7 more
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A case report of acute intermittent porphyria leading to severe disability [PDF]

Frontiers in Neurology, 2023
Acute intermittent porphyria (AIP) is a rare inherited metabolic disorder resulting from increased production of porphyrins and their precursors, δ-aminolevulinic acid (ALA) and porphobilinogen (PBG), due to deficiencies in the enzymatic activity of the ...
Jie Lin, Jinzhi Liu, Aihua Wang, Zhihua Si   +3 more
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Long-term follow-up of givosiran treatment in patients with acute intermittent porphyria from a phase 1/2, 48-month open-label extension study [PDF]

Orphanet Journal of Rare Diseases
Background Acute hepatic porphyria is a group of multisystem disorders of which acute intermittent porphyria is the most common subtype. Givosiran, a subcutaneously administered RNA interference therapeutic targeting liver ALAS mRNA, is approved for ...
Eliane Sardh, Manisha Balwani, David C. Rees, Karl E. Anderson, Gang Jia, Marianne T. Sweetser, Bruce Wang   +6 more
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Acute Intermittent Porphyria Presenting with Posterior Reversible Encephalopathy Syndrome, Reversible Cerebral Vasoconstriction Syndrome and Myocardial Ischemia: A Case Report and Review [PDF]

Psychology Research and Behavior Management
Bin Zhang,1,2 Chunqing Bu,3 Yuying Zhao,4 Zhangyong Xia1,5– 7 1Department of Neurology, Liaocheng People’s Hospital, Liaocheng, Shandong, People’s Republic of China; 2Department of Neurology, Qilu Hospital, Shandong University, Jinan, Shandong, People’s ...
Zhang B, Bu C, Zhao Y, Xia Z
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Reversible Cerebral Vasospasm in Acute Intermittent Porphyria: A Case Report and Review of the Literature

European Journal of Case Reports in Internal Medicine, 2022
The porphyrias are rare inherited diseases of heme biosynthesis which can involve the nervous system. The most common neurological manifestations of acute intermittent porphyria are autonomic visceral neuropathy, peripheral motor neuropathy, and central ...
Attout Hassene, Stephane Guez
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Acute intermittent porphyria

Journal of Anaesthesiology Clinical Pharmacology, 2015
17-year-old female, came with complaints of abdominal pain, vomitings, hypertension. Three days before admission she developed severe abdominal pain, backache and generalised body pains with extreme weakness. These symptoms worsened over 3 days, accompanied by nausea, vomiting, and emotional instability [1]. Her medical history is notable for 6 similar
Syal, Kartik, Bhatt, Rashmi, Singh, Surinder, Ohri, Anil   +3 more
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Acute intermittent porphyria [PDF]

Postgraduate Medical Journal, 1967
These discussions are selected from the weekly staff conferences in the Department of Medicine, University of California Medical Center, San Francisco. Taken from transcriptions, they are prepared by Drs. Martin J. Cline and Hibbard E. Williams, Assistant Professors of Medicine, under the direction of Dr. Lloyd H.
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Acute intermittent porphyria exacerbation following in vitro fertilization treatment

Taiwanese Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology, 2016
Objectives: Assisted reproductive technology is commonly used for women with infertility. We report a case of acute intermittent porphyria associated with in vitro fertilization treatment.
Geok Huey New, Pei-Yang Hsu, Meng-Hsing Wu   +2 more
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