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Porhyria Association - incorporating PEGS Porhyria Association - incorporating PEGS Porhyria Association - incorporating PEGS Porhyria Association - incorporating PEGS
Porhyria Association - incorporating PEGS Porhyria Association - incorporating PEGS Porhyria Association - incorporating PEGS


Porhyria Association - incorporating PEGS

For Doctors

Safe/Unsafe drugs are in the menu on the left.

The annecdotal reports on treatment and prevention may be helpful.

For treatment of acute attacks, click here.

Recommended overview journal articles:

Kauppinen R, "Porphyrias", the Lancet, Vol 365 241-52, 15 Jan 2005

Thadani H, Deacon A, & Peters T, "Diagnosis and management of porphyria" British Medical Journal, Vol 320, 1647-51, 2000

Elder GH, Hift RJ, & Meissner PN, "The Acute Porphyrias", The Lancet, Vol 349, 1997

King PH, Bragdon AC, "MRI reveals multiple reversible cerebral lesions in an attack of acute intermittent porphyria," Neurology, Vol (8), 1300-02, 1991

Crimlisk Helen L., "The little imitator", Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery, and Psychiatry, Vol 62, 319 Ð 328, 1997

Grandchamp, Martasek & various authors, Seminars in Liver Disease (the whole issue is devoted to all the porphyrias) 18:1, 1998