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Homozygous acute intermittent porphyria in a 7-year-old boy with massive excretions of porphyrins and porphyrin precursors.
Journal of inherited metabolic disease - 1 Jan 2004
Hessels J, Voortman G, van der Wagen A, van der Elzen C, Scheffer H, Zuijderhoudt F M J
Abstract excerpt
A 7-year-old boy demonstrating hepatosplenomegaly, mild anaemia, mild mental retardation, yellow-brown teeth and dark red urine had excessively elevated levels of urinary delta-aminolevulinic acid, porphobilinogen and uroporphyrin. Furthermore hepta-, hexa-, penta- and copro(I)porphyrins were highly increased in urine. This pattern of porphyrin precursor and metabolite excretion is characteristic of acute...
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