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A Prospective, Blinded Study of Symptom Prevalence and Specificity of Porphyrin Precursors in Carriers of Acute Hepatic Porphyria

Liver International, Volume 45, Issue 7, July 2025.
ABSTRACT Background and Aims This study aimed to characterise symptoms and assess the prevalence of elevated urine porphyrin precursors in first‐degree relatives of acute hepatic porphyria (AHP) patients who have never experienced acute attacks and had no previous AHP genetic or biochemical testing.
Mohsen Merati, Nanditha Jayakumar, Yuvraaj Kapoor, Hetanshi Naik, Manisha Balwani, Karl E. Anderson, Herbert L. Bonkovsky, Robert J. Desnick, Brendan McGuire, John Phillips, D. Montgomery Bissell, Bruce Wang   +11 more
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Preventing hyperhomocysteinemia using vitamin B6 supplementation in Givosiran-treated acute intermittent porphyria: Highlights from a case report and brief literature review

Molecular Genetics and Metabolism Reports
Acute hepatic porphyrias are inherited metabolic disorders of heme biosynthesis characterized by the accumulation of toxic intermediate metabolites responsible for disabling acute neurovisceral attacks. Givosiran is a newly approved siRNA-based treatment
Isabelle Redonnet-Vernhet, Patrick Mercié, Louis Lebreton, Jean-Marc Blouin, Didier Bronnimann, Samir Mesli, Claire Guibet, Emmanuel Ribeiro, Noémie Gensous, Pierre Duffau, Laurent Gouya, Emmanuel Richard   +11 more
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Cardiac calcification in acute intermittent porphyria

Annals of Pediatric Cardiology, 2011
Aetiology of pericardial calcifications can be multifactorial. Tuberculosis has been reported as the most common cause. Other known causes include uraemia, asbestosis, post-traumatic or postoperative.
Tanmoy Ghatak, Afzal Azim, Arvind K Baronia, Banani Poddar   +3 more
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Mismatched transfusion of 8 AB0-incompatible units of packed red blood cells in a patient with acute intermittent porphyria

Saudi Journal of Anaesthesia, 2011
We report on a patient with acute intermittent porphyria, who received 8 AB0 incompatible units of packed red blood cells in an emergency situation. She never showed any signs of severe intravascular haemolysis.
Burkard Rudlof, Burkhard Just, Robert Deitenbeck, Thomas Ehmann   +3 more
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Byōseki and pathography: Their commonalities and differences

Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences Reports, Volume 4, Issue 2, June 2025.
Abstract The German psychiatrist Paul Julius Möbius began to use the term Pathographie in a new sense: a psychiatric biography of a historical figure that focuses on their pathological aspects. Byōseki, which originated from Möbius's Pathographie, refers to a uniquely Japanese practice that explores the relationship between creativity and ...
Shinnosuke Saito
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Desensitization in patients with hypersensitivity to haem arginate: A case report

World Allergy Organization Journal, 2019
Background: Porphyria comprises a group of metabolic disorders caused by the irregular activities of enzymes within the haem biosynthetic pathway. This disease can provoke a large variety of symptoms.
Edgardo Chapman, Drixie Leal, Eugenio Matijasevic, Elizabeth García   +3 more
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Porfiria aguda intermitente: relato de caso e revisão da literatura Acute intermittent porphyria: case report and review of the literature

Revista Brasileira de Terapia Intensiva, 2008
Porfiria aguda intermitente é patologia incomum, com conseqüências potencialmente graves se não reconhecida precocemente. Dentre as possíveis causas de indução de crises de porfiria, a redução da ingestão calórica é descrita na literatura.
Daniela von Ah Lopes, Marcelo Araújo do Valle, Jéfferson Taguti, Regina Celli Thomé Castro Taguti, Gustavo Navarro Betônico, Fabiana Clemente Medeiros   +5 more
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Chronic Elevation of Liver Enzymes in Acute Intermittent Porphyria Initially Misdiagnosed as Autoimmune Hepatitis

International Journal of Hepatology, 2011
Autoimmune hepatitis is a disease characterized by an elevation of liver enzymes, as well as specific autoantibodies. It is more common in women than men.
A. González Estrada, S. García-Morillo, L. Gómez Morales, P. Stiefel García-Junco   +3 more
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Porphyria Presenting as Diffuse Encephalopathy

Pediatric Neurology Briefs, 2005
An 18-year-old female presenting with seizures, myalgias, abdominal pain, headache and vomiting had multiple large contrast-enhancing white matter lesions on MRI and was diagnosed with acute intermittent porphyria (AIP), in a report from the Department ...
J Gordon Millichap
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Acute intermittent porphyria caused by novel mutation in HMBS gene, misdiagnosed as cholecystitis

Neuropsychiatric Disease and Treatment, 2014
Majid Alfadhel,1,3 Neam Saleh,2 Helal Alenazi,2 Henry Baffoe-Bonnie21Division of Genetics, Department of Pediatrics, 2Division of General Medicine, Department of Medicine, King Abdulaziz Medical City, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia; 3College of Medicine,
Alfadhel M, Saleh N, Alenazi H, Baffoe-Bonnie H   +3 more
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