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Hepatic Porphyrins in Variegate Porphyria

New England Journal of Medicine, 1980
David A Brenner
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Large phlebotomy in variegate porphyria

Journal of Internal Medicine, 1997
Harper P, Hybinette T, Thunell S (Porphyria Centre Sweden, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm and the Department of Internal Medicine, Regional Hospital Kalmar, Sweden). Large phlebotomy in variegate porphyria (Case report). J Intern Med 1997; 242: 255–9.There are no reports on effects of large blood losses in acute hepatic porphyria. In the present study
P, Harper, T, Hybinette, S, Thunell
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Brainstem dysfunction in variegate porphyria

Muscle & Nerve, 2012
AbstractIntroduction: Variegate porphyria (VP) is a rare metabolic disorder that may present as an acute predominantly motor neuropathy. Cranial nerves and brainstem functions have been only scarcely studied. Methods: Brainstem reflexes were examined in symptomatic and non‐symptomatic VP mutation carriers of a single family.
Gonzalo, Barraza, Tereza, Serranova, Carmen, Herrero, Jordi, Casanova-Mollá, Jordi, To-Figueras, Javier, Herranz, Josep, Valls-Solé   +6 more
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Variegate porphyria associated with hepatocellular carcinoma

British Journal of Dermatology, 1989
A case is described of hepatocellular carcinoma presenting with the cutaneous and biochemical features of variegate porphyria.
M J, Tidman, E M, Higgins, G H, Elder, D M, MacDonald   +3 more
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THE ORAL CONTRACEPTIVE AND VARIEGATE PORPHYRIA

British Journal of Dermatology, 1972
The rare variegate form of porphyria (inherited as a Mendelian dominant character) which was manifested after 1 week of oral contraceptive treatment with Minovlar in a previously asymptomatic 20-year old woman is reported. Symptoms persisting from July-September 1970 included abdominal pain low backache obstinate constipation vomiting anorexia and ...
A W, McKenzie, U, Acharya
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Variegate Porphyria: Past, Present and Future

Skin Pharmacology and Physiology, 1998
Variegate porphyria, one of the acute hepatic porphyrias, is characterized by a partial reduction in protoporphyrinogen oxidase, the seventh enzyme of the heme biosynthetic pathway. For a long time, this disease has caused confusion among the porphyrias because it presents with clinical symptoms and biochemical findings that can be similar to those ...
J, Frank, A M, Christiano
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An Irish family with variegate porphyria

Clinical and Experimental Dermatology, 1984
Summary Eight members of a large Irish family had clinical or biochemical evidence of variegate porphyria. Only four members had the characteristic cutaneous changes. These findings support previous reports that carriers of the gene may be clinically latent, particularly in temperate climates.
H, McGrath, J A, Taaffe, D, Gilsenan, K, Cunnane   +3 more
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Cholelithiasis in patients with variegate porphyria

Journal of Hepatology, 1991
Four patients with variegate porphyria (VP) who developed symptoms attributable to cholelithiasis are described. Elective cholecystectomy was performed uneventfully in two of these patients in whom the diagnosis of porphyria had previously been made. The third patient was not known to have porphyria at the time of surgery and developed a fulminating ...
A L, Herrick, M R, Moore, G G, Thompson, G P, Ford, K E, McColl   +4 more
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Variegate porphyria with unusual neurologic manifestations

The American Journal of the Medical Sciences, 1976
A 62-year-old man with variegate porphyria is reported. This is the first case to be described in Greece. Apart from the common features of the disease this patient exhibited sensory loss of the syringomyelic type. Though variegate prophyria with neurologic manifestations is not uncommon syringomyelic type of sensory loss is most unusual.
C, Lyberatos, G, Arapakis, E, Aronis, C, Gardikas   +3 more
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Homozygous variegate porphyria: a case report

British Journal of Dermatology, 1990
Homozygous variegate porphyria is described in a 14-year-old girl with a unique clinical presentation of photosensitivity from the second year of life, mental retardation, clinodactyly, and normal growth rate. The erythrocyte protoporphyrin concentration was raised with the protoporphyrin being predominantly zinc-chelated, which appears to be ...
P G, Norris, G H, Elder, J L, Hawk
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