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Acute Intermittent Porphyria: Current Perspectives And Case Presentation

Therapeutics and Clinical Risk Management, 2019
Zachary Spiritos,1 Shakirat Salvador,2 Diana Mosquera,3 Julius Wilder1,4 1Department of Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC, USA; 2Department of Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology, Vanderbilt ...
Spiritos Z, Salvador S, Mosquera D, Wilder J   +3 more
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Quantifying the impact of symptomatic acute hepatic porphyria on well‐being via patient‐reported outcomes: Results from the Porphyria Worldwide Patient Experience Research (POWER) study

JIMD Reports, 2023
Acute hepatic porphyria (AHP) is a group of rare genetic diseases of heme biosynthesis resulting in severe neurovisceral attacks and chronic complications that negatively impact patients' well‐being.
Amy Dickey, Kristen Wheeden, Desiree Lyon, Sue Burrell, Sean Hegarty, Rocco Falchetto, Edrin R. Williams, Jasmin Barman‐Aksözen, Marc DeCongelio, Alison Bulkley, Joana E. Matos, Tarek Mnif, Jordanna Mora, John J. Ko, Stephen Meninger, Stephen Lombardelli, Danielle Nance   +16 more
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Gene Dosage Sensitivity and Human Genetic Diseases

Journal of Inherited Metabolic Disease, Volume 48, Issue 4, July 2025.
ABSTRACT Here we review the historical background and contemporary insights into genetic dominance, focusing on haploinsufficiency (HI), that is, when the function of only one allele of a gene is not enough to ensure a normal phenotype in a diploid organism.
Reiner A. Veitia, Johannes Zschocke, James A. Birchler   +2 more
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High penetrance, recurrent attacks and thrombus formation in a family with hereditary coproporphyria

JIMD Reports, 2022
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, Sobana Balakrishnan, Chris Florkowski, Andrew Davies, Elaine Barrington‐Ward   +4 more
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Folate Deficiency, Porphyria, and Seizures

Pediatric Neurology Briefs, 1993
A 12 year old, learning-disabled boy with epilepsy was admitted to the University of Connecticut Health Center, Farmington, CT because of symptomatic folate deficiency and newly diagnosed acute intermittent porphyria.
J Gordon Millichap
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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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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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Long-term follow-up of givosiran treatment in patients with acute intermittent porphyria from a phase 1/2, 48-month open-label extension study

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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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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