[Acute intermittent porphyria and simulated acute porphyria: case reports]

The authors present according to a case of acute intermittent porphyria, diagnostic and therapeutical problems, which are met by physicians in a regional hospital (case 1). Simultaneously the authors present a case of woman with opiate depends syndrome, who has simulated attacks of acute porphyria for the last few years in order to obtain narcotic drugs (case 2).