Open AccessLate Acute Intermittent Porphyria Attack In A Patient With Type 2 Diabetes
Author(s) -
Nicoleta Toma,
Maria M. Stancu,
Octavian Savu
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
romanian journal of diabetes nutrition and metabolic diseases
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2284-6417
pISSN - 2068-8245
DOI - 10.1515/rjdnmd-2015-0016
Subject(s) - medicine , acute intermittent porphyria , abdominal pain , porphyria , urinary system , porphobilinogen , diabetes mellitus , type 2 diabetes , gastroenterology , surgery , endocrinology
Background. Acute intermittent porphyria (AIP) is a hereditary metabolic aberration resulting from a partial defect in the activity of the enzyme porphobilinogen deaminase (PBDG) during the course of haeme synthesis. Diabetic metabolism may attenuate the episodes of porphyria related symptoms
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