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Variegate (mixed) porphyria in a Nigerian girl
M A Durosinmi1, O Adejuyigbe, B Adamolekun
1Department of Haematology & Immunology, Obafemi Awolowo Teaching Hospitals Complex, Ile-Ife, Nigeria.
Annals of Tropical Paediatrics
|January 1, 1991
Abstract:
A fatal case of variegate (mixed) porphyria in an 11-year-old Nigerian girl is reported. She presented with severe abdominal pain, vomiting, constipation, quadriplegia and cutaneous bullous dermatosis. Remission was temporarily achieved with chlorpromazine, high carbohydrate diet and physiotherapy. She finally died of respiratory paralysis 17 months after diagnosis.