OBSERVATIONS ON A CASE OF MIXED PORPHYRIA WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO PATHOGENESIS AND TREATMENT
Authors: A L FREEDMAN
Journal: Annals of Internal Medicine (1956)

Case Reports1 February 1956OBSERVATIONS ON A CASE OF MIXED PORPHYRIA WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO PATHOGENESIS AND TREATMENTALBERT L. FREEDMAN, M.D.ALBERT L. FREEDMAN, M.D.Search for more papers by this authorAuthor, Article, and Disclosure Informationhttps://doi.org/10.7326/0003-4819-44-2-391 SectionsAboutPDF ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack CitationsPermissions ShareFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail ExcerptIt has recently been possible to study a young man with diabetes mellitus and mixed porphyria. This paper deals with observations concerning the clinical course, pathogenesis and therapeutics in the latter disease. The association of diabetes with porphyria has occasionally been noted1 and seems most common in porphyria cutanea tarda,2, 3 but so far as we are aware has not been previously described in mixed porphyria.A brief review of the types and major features of porphyria, following Watson's classification, is helpful in any discussion of this disease and is presented in table 1.Because of its unusual features our...Bibliography1. SterlingSilverRicketts KMHT: Development of porphyria in diabetes mellitus; report of three cases, Arch. Int. Med. 84: 965, 1949. CrossrefGoogle Scholar2. SchmidSchwartzWatson RSCJ: Porphyrin content of bone marrow and liver in the various forms of porphyria, Arch. Int. Med. 93: 167, 1954. CrossrefGoogle Scholar3. BrunstingMasonAldrich LAHLRA: Adult form of chronic porphyria with cutaneous manifestations; report of 17 additional cases, J. A. M. A. 146: 1207, 1951. CrossrefMedlineGoogle Scholar4. Watson CJ: Porphyrin metabolism, in Diseases of metabolism, Duncan, G. 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