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Five patients are reported with acute intermittent porphyria in whom attacks were apparently precipitated by international air travel. In four subjects this was the initial presenting attack and in a fifth the cause of an acute relapse in a patient requiring regular haem arginate prophylaxis.
In three patients with attacks of acute intermittent porphyria we found markedly impaired functions of the left ventricle accompanied by ECG changes that returned to normal after administration of heme arginate or cytochrome C administration. In nine patients with other types of porphyria, and in
Sudden permanent blindness of cerebral origin, in addition to severe abdominal pain, hypertension, convulsions, and peripheral neuropathy developed in a 21-year-old woman, a victim of acute intermittent porphyria. Findings of the pathological examination of the brain showed extensive infarction in
After description of the central-nervous signs due to hypoglycemia, hypoxia, hypo- and hypercalcemia there are discussed several internal diseases with prominent neurologic symptoms like endocrine disorders of thyroid, adrenal and pituitary gland, malignant diseases especially regarding the
A 41-year-old woman, suffering from continuous abdominal pain, only presented a non-specific inflammation of the whole colon and an unclaryfied hyponatriaemia; in spite of the only doubtful explanation by an enormous elongation of the colon, it was partially resected. Thereafter, the patient's
Cognitive dysfunctions are relatively common in postoperative and critically ill patients. This complication not only compromises recovery after surgery, but, if persistent, it minimizes and compromises surgery itself. Risk factors of postoperative cognitive disorders can be divided into age and
Hypoxia and growth factor stimulation induce hypoxia-inducible factor-1α (HIF-1α), conferring upon cancer cells the ability to adapt to microenvironments and enhance proliferation, angiogenesis and metastasis. Hemin, an iron-binding porphyrin, has been used to treat porphyria attacks, particularly
The KBS was first described on the basis of experimental bilateral temporal lobectomy in monkeys. Extrapolating any syndrome from monkey to man is frought with controversy, but the 53 patients with KBS reported here are significant for the completeness of its expression and the opportunity to follow