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A family with acute intermittent porphyria.
Journal of the College of Physicians and Surgeons--Pakistan : JCPSP - 1 May 2008
Billoo Abdul Gaffar, Lone Saira Waqar
Abstract excerpt
Porphyrias are inherited defects in heme metabolism that result in excessive secretion of porphyrins and porphyrin precursors. Porphyrias can be classified into acute, (neuropsychiatric), cutaneous and mixed forms. There are seven main types of porphyrias; acute intermittent porphyria and plumboporphyria are predominantly neuropsychiatric; congenital erythropoietic porphyria, porphyria cutanea tarda and...
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