Faecal porphyrin excretion in various types of porphyria

✍ Scribed by H. Perrot; M. Boucherat; J. Thivolet

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag
• Year: 1978
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 437 KB
• Volume: 263
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0340-3696
• DOI: 10.1007/bf00446855

✦ Synopsis

A new method of thin layer chromatography was used for the study of faecal porphyrins in 31 porphyric patients (20 cases of porphyria cutanea tarda, 5 cases of porphyria variegata, 2 cases of hereditary coproporphyria, 1 case of acute intermittent porphyria and 3 cases of erythropoietic protoporphyria), 14 of their clinically normal relatives and 5 controls. The pattern obtained was characteristic of each type of porphyria and compared to previously published data.