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Case report. Acute intermittent porphyria present as quadriparesis in Nigerian female
Tropical and Geographical Medicine
|September 1, 1980
Abstract:
A case of intermittent porphyria is reported. The patient had quadriparesis, acute abdominal symptoms and abnormalities in the blood chemistry. Acute intermittent porphyria is not a common disease in Africans. The severe neurological signs in this patient may have been precipitated by medication.