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Acute porphyria in a patient with Arnold Chiari malformation. [PDF]
BACKGROUND: Acute porphyria and Arnold Chiari malformation are both uncommon genetic disorders without known association. The insidious onset, non-specific clinical manifestations, and precipitating factors often cause diagnosis of acute porphyria to be ...
Shen J +3 more
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Acute porphyria presenting with hyperamylasemia [PDF]
An elevation of serum amylase and lipase has not been reported previously to occur with porphyria. In this report, we describe a patient who presented with the clinical and laboratory picture of pancreatitis: elevated amylase, lipase, amylase-creatinine ...
Alexander, Jeffrey A. +2 more
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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 +7 more
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Illness Perception and Psychological Distress in Persons with Porphyria Cutanea Tarda [PDF]
Porphyria cutanea tarda (PCT) requires long-term treatment and follow-up, although many patients experience life-long remission. The aim of this cross-sectional postal survey was to describe and investigate the association between illness perception ...
Andersen, Janice +2 more
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ABSTRACT Background Complex regional pain syndrome type 1 (CRPS1) is a disabling pain syndrome whose treatment remains challenging. Mesotherapy is a therapeutic method involving the injection of low doses of active substances through the skin. No studies assessed mesotherapy in CRPS1 patients.
Philippe Lafuma +12 more
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Characterisation of the flavin adenine dinucleotide binding region in Myxococcus xanthus protoporphyrinogen oxidase [PDF]
This dissertation focuses on protoporphyrinogen oxidase (PPOX), the penultimate enzyme in the haem biosynthetic pathway. Partial defects in PPOX result in variegate porphyria, an autosomal dominant disorder.
Boateng, Mavis O
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High penetrance, recurrent attacks and thrombus formation in a family with hereditary coproporphyria
Hereditary coproporphyria (HCP) is the rarest of the autosomal dominant acute porphyrias with an estimated incidence of 0.02 per 10 million per year.
Cindy Towns +4 more
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Porphyria Cutanea Tarda (PCT) is a rare paraneoplastic syndrome. The effects of therapeutic ionizing radiation in patients with PCT are not well understood.
Sarah Z. Hazell +2 more
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ABSTRACT Background/Purpose Visible light (VL), and particularly high‐energy visible light (HEVL), reaching Earth's surface has emerged as a relevant contributor to skin damage. VL has been implicated in oxidative stress, inflammation, pigmentation disorders, and photoaging, especially in individuals with darker skin phototypes.
Azahara Rodríguez‐Luna +5 more
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ABSTRACT Radiation therapy (RT) is a mainstay of treatment for a myriad of cancers, often utilized for tumors that are unable to be resected, as well as an adjunct to surgery and chemotherapy. Unfortunately, many cancers are resistant to RT‐induced damage and subsequent cell death.
Joseph Carmicheal +4 more
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