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Nutrition management of acute intermittent porphyria
T L Robert1, L Varella, M M Meguid
1Department of Surgery, University Hospital, SUNY Health Science Center 13210.
Nutrition (Burbank, Los Angeles County, Calif.)
|November 1, 1994
Abstract:
A patient with acute intermittent porphyria is presented to emphasize the relevance of nutrition in its management. Clinical manifestations, diagnosis of acute intermittent porphyria, simplified heme biosynthetic pathway, the glucose effect, and the rationale for giving nutritional therapy for acute intermittent porphyria are discussed.