Recurrent porphyria attacks in a Chinese patient with a heterozygous PBGD mutation.

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We report here the case of a 32-year-old Chinese Han woman who presented with frequent severe abdominal pain, convulsion, numbness and confusion. She also had hypertension, hyponatremia, chronic renal failure, anemia and a high urinary δ-aminolevulinic acid concentration. We identified a heterozygous splicing mutation in intron 11 (IVS11-2A→G) of the porphobilinogen (PBG) deaminase gene (PBGD) in her genomic DNA....

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