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Acute variegate porphyria following a Scarsdale Gourmet Diet
Symptoms of porphyria developed in a 34-year-old woman following 3 weeks of a low carbohydrate diet. Reversal of a comatose state was obtained following multiple infusions of hematin. The diagnosis of variegate porphyria was made from the pattern of quantitative urine and stool porphyrins and a plasma fluorescence that was maximal at 626 nm. This fluorescence wavelength maxima also was found in the plasma of two family members screened for latent porphyria.
Symptoms of porphyria developed in a 34-year-old woman following 3 weeks of a low carbohydrate diet. Reversal of a comatose state was obtained following multiple infusions of hematin. The diagnosis of variegate porphyria was made from the pattern of quantitative urine and stool porphyrins and a plasma fluorescence that was maximal at 626 nm. This fluorescence wavelength maxima also was found in the plasma of two family members screened for latent porphyria.