Acute Idiopathic Porphyria

Discombe, George; D'Silva, J. L.

doi:10.1136/bmj.2.4423.491

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“…1176Nov. 29, 1952 ACUTE PORPHYRIA MEDICALTISHRNAL Dturing the acute phases weight loss was noted in both patients, but records taken in Case 1 failed to demonstrate the pre-episodic fall stressed by Discombe and D'Silva (1945).…”

Section: Investigationsmentioning

confidence: 94%

Acute Porphyria

Goldberg¹,

Ac²,

Rimington³

1952

BMJ

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Section: Investigationsmentioning

confidence: 94%

Acute Porphyria

Goldberg¹,

Ac²,

Rimington³

1952

BMJ

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“…Davies (1949) and Denny Brown and Sciara (1945) reported cases in which second attacks were fatal. The case reported by Petrie (1948) followed a chronic course, and slow recovery was described by Hoagland (1942), Discombe and d'Silva (1945), Halpern andCopsey (1946), Yeager (1947), and Marietta (1949).…”

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confidence: 95%

Prognosis of Acute Porphyria

Hirson¹

1953

BMJ

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“…16 4 ERIC G. SAINT, ERNEST S. FINCKH AND IAN PARSONS (1944) and Waldenstrom (1937). In England there has recently been a spate of case reports: Chandler et alii (1939), Discombe and d'Silva (1945), , Abrahams, Gavey and MacLagan (1947), , , Gibson, Harrison and Montgomery (1950), and Grossfield (1951). The outstanding clinical features of acute porphyria are the occurrence of abdominal pain and a variable pattern of psychiatric and neurological manifestations.…”

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confidence: 99%