Clinical presentation of patients with acute intermittent porphyria-our experience with 12 patients
JCPSP-Journal of the College of Physicians and Surgeons Pakistan. 1994; 4 (4): 133-135
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ABSTRACT
Acute Intermittent Porphyria [AIP] presents as acute abdomen and implicates emergency and injudicious surgery. A clinical profile of AIP has been studied in 12 patients in order to raise a high suspicion index so that injudicious surgery is avoided. The study shows that the cases fell in 2nd and 3rd decade with a male preponderance of 111. Abdominal pain, tachycardia, hypertension and neuropsychiatric manifestationns were found in almost all the cases. Four out of 12 patients had underwent surgery as [acute abdomen] and three died with septicaemia. Three fourth of the cases belonged to Baiochistan
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Assunto principal:
Porfirias
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Porfirinogênios
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Ácidos Levulínicos
Limite:
Feminino
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Humanos
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Masculino
Idioma:
Inglês
Revista:
J. Coll. Physicians Surg. Pak.
Ano de publicação:
1994
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