Acute intermittent porphyria presenting as recurrent limb weakness

Authors

  • Binod Karki Department of Internal Medicine, Shree Birendra Hospital, Kathmandu
  • Prakash Raj Pande Department of Internal Medicine, Shree Birendra Hospital, Kathmandu
  • Arun Sharma Department of Internal Medicine, Shree Birendra Hospital, Kathmandu
  • Rajeeb Kumar Deo Department of Internal Medicine, Shree Birendra Hospital, Kathmandu

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.3126/mjsbh.v11i2.7910

Keywords:

porphyria, limb weakness, quadriparesis

Abstract

Acute intermittent porphyria is a rare autosomal dominant condition of porphyrin metabolism resulting from the half-normal Hydroxy methyl bilane synthase activity. The disorder can present with protean manifestation ranging from acute abdomen, psychosis to gross peripheral neuropathy thus making the diagnosis challenging and misled most of the times. A case of Acute intermittent porphyria with extreme neurological involvement in form of acute onset quadriparesis is presented in this paper.

Medical Journal of Shree Birendra Hospital; July-December 2012/vol.11/Issue2/44-45

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3126/mjsbh.v11i2.7910

 

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Published

2013-04-06

How to Cite

Karki, B., Pande, P. R., Sharma, A., & Deo, R. K. (2013). Acute intermittent porphyria presenting as recurrent limb weakness. Medical Journal of Shree Birendra Hospital, 11(2), 44–45. https://doi.org/10.3126/mjsbh.v11i2.7910

Issue

Vol. 11 No. 2 (2012)

Section

Case Reports