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Echocardiographic Changes in Cases of Intermittent Acute Porphyria
Raja Babu Panwar1, Vijay Setia, Bal Kishan Gupta
1Cardiology Division, Department of Medicine, S.P. Medical College, Bikaner (Rajasthan&rpar, India.
Echocardiography (Mount Kisco, N.Y.)
|May 1, 1997
Abstract:
Intermittent acute porphyria (IAP) is an inborn metabolic disorder of biosynthesis of haeme, characterized by increased excretion of porphyrin or porphyrin precursor in urine and clinically by gastrointestinal, neuro-psychiatric and cardiovascular manifestations. Significant observations were made on echocardiographic examination of 25 IAP patients in our study. Significant decrease in ejection fraction (48.4 +/- 7.9, control group 63.0 +/- 7.5, P < 0.001) and percentage of fractional shortening (23.5% +/- 6.87%, control group = 36.4 +/- 4.26, P