Acute intermittent porphyria (AIP) is an inborn error of metabolism inherited via a fully identified autosomal dominant gene. The porphyrias, a group of diseases ...

An acute AIP attack may have numerous clinical manifestations. Abdominal pain is not only the most common symptom, but also is often the first sign of an acute attack. [3] Other common symptoms ...

SOME of the manifestations of acute intermittent porphyria are suggestive of thyrotoxicosis. These include emotional lability, tachycardia and muscular weakness, and such findings have on occasion led ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . In her session, Dickey, an assistant professor at Massachusetts General Hospital, looked at a form of porphyria ...

Dr. John C. Schell (Medicine): A 25-year-old woman with a history of acute intermittent porphyria was admitted to this hospital because of abdominal pain and jerking movements of the right arm and leg ...