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Neuropsychiatric Manifestation of Acute Intermittent Porphyria: A Case Report

Author(s) -

Tilottama Parate,

K S Tony,

Rahul D. Bhiwgade,

Faisal Pathan

Publication year - 2022

Publication title -

vidarbha journal of internal medicine

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

ISSN - 0976-4356

DOI - 10.25259/vjim_10_2021

Subject(s) - porphyria , acute intermittent porphyria , medicine , polyneuropathy , disease , encephalopathy , heme , dermatology , pediatrics , psychiatry , biochemistry , chemistry , enzyme

Acute intermittent porphyria is a rare hereditary metabolic disorder with heme biosynthesis. Because of the wide and non-specific symptomatology of porphyria, diagnosis of porphyria is often missed or usually misdiagnosed as polyneuropathy or encephalopathy, or psychiatric disease. This case report is a reminder to physicians regarding porphyric neuropathy and psychiatric involvement associated with porphyria.

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