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Acute intermittent porphyria: studies of the severe homozygous dominant disease provides insights into the neurologic attacks in acute porphyrias.
Archives of neurology - 1 Nov 2004
Solis Constanza, Martinez-Bermejo Antonio, Naidich Thomas P, Kaufmann Walter E, Astrin Kenneth H, Bishop David F, Desnick Robert J
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Acute intermittent porphyria (AIP), due to half-normal hydroxymethylbilane synthase activity,is characterized by acute life-threatening neurologic attacks whose etiology remains unclear. To date, only 3 patients confirmed to have homozygous dominant AIP (HD-AIP) have been described (hydroxymethylbilane synthase genotypes R167Q/R167Q and R167W/R173Q). OBJECTIVE: To investigate the genetic, biochemical,...
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