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Sickle cell trait and acute intermittent porphyria leading to small bowel infarction
M R Budhoo1, S Mitchell, J Eddlestone
1Department of General and Colorectal Surgery, Manchester Royal Infirmary, U.K.
Journal of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh
|May 7, 1999
Abstract:
Sickle cell trait patients rarely have crises. A case of co-morbidity with acute intermittent porphyria is described in which trans-mural infarction of the distal ileum secondary to red cell sickling resulted in a fatal outcome.