The porphyrias: Clinical and laboratory aspects

✍ Scribed by Bruce Campbell

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1987
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 861 KB
• Volume: 1
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0887-8013
• DOI: 10.1002/jcla.1860010410

✦ Synopsis

The porphyrias, a group of diseases final sections integrate the previous inforcaused by enzyme deficiencies in the mation to provide a protocol to assist in heme biosynthetic pathway, are reviewed. planning the investigation of any particular The clinical features and pathophysiology case of porphyria according to clinical preof each porphyria are discussed. Analytisentation and in interpreting the results of cal techniques used in both screening and laboratory investigations. definitive investigations are reviewed. The