Acute Intermittent Porphyria in Childhood Presenting with Hypertensive Emergency and Posterior Reversible Encephalopathy Syndrome

• Main Authors: Rishab Bharadwaj (Author), Pallavi P Dagli (Author), Aasheeta S Shah (Author)
• 格式: 圖書
• 出版: Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications, 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z.
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Acute intermittent porphyria is an inherited metabolic disease due to deficiency of the enzyme porphobilinogen deaminase that can affect the autonomic, peripheral and central nervous system. We report an 8 year old female who had presented with hyponatremia, psychiatric manifestations, seizures, hyp...