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Case Reports
. 1984 Sep;5(3):299-302.
doi: 10.1007/BF02043962.

Possible effectiveness of plasmapheresis on the neurological complications in a case of acute intermittent porphyria

D Sità, S Maurri, C Groppi, F Barontini
Case Reports

Possible effectiveness of plasmapheresis on the neurological complications in a case of acute intermittent porphyria

D Sità et al. Ital J Neurol Sci. 1984 Sep.

Abstract

A 56 year old woman with acute intermittent porphyria presented mainly motor polyneuropathy, ophthalmoparesis of probable supranuclear origin and a mild organic brain syndrome. The neurological complications gradually cleared during a course of plasmapheresis. The fairly rapid improvement could conceivably have been fortuitous but it may well have been due to plasmapheresis.

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