Hundreds of patients in Japan with unexplained abdominal pain go untested for acute hepatic porphyria (AHP), despite showing a number of the condition’s hallmark symptoms, a study suggests. Among those who remained undiagnosed after an evaluation at a hospital for abdominal pain, all had two to four characteristic features of…
The case of a 43-year-old woman with variegate porphyria (VP) who developed acute psychosis despite no prior psychiatric history highlights a less common manifestation of this rare metabolic disorder, according to a new report from clinicians in Europe. While VP usually causes skin sensitivity, abdominal pain, and high blood…
A woman in her 60s with fragile skin and blistering lesions on sun-exposed areas was diagnosed with porphyria cutanea tarda (PCT), the most common form of porphyria, alongside cutaneous sarcoidosis, a rare inflammatory skin condition, according to a case study from Canada. The woman was found to carry two…
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