Acute intermittent porphyria (AIP) is an autosomal-dominant condition resulting from a partial deficiency of the ubiquitously expressed enzyme porphobilinogen deaminase. Although its clinical expression is highly variable, a minority of patients suffer recurrent life-threatening neurovisceral attack
Recovery from a variegate porphyria by a liver transplantation
✍ Scribed by Nathalie Stojeba; Carole Meyer; Catherine Jeanpierre; Frédéric Perrot; Christine Hirth; Thierry Pottecher; Jean-Charles Deybach
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2004
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 77 KB
- Volume
- 10
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1527-6465
- DOI
- 10.1002/lt.20136
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