Variegate porphyria presenting with acute autonomic dysfunction, intussusception and renal infarction

Scandinavian Journal of Gastroenterology

Volumn 39, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 500-503

  Griffith, J C ^a   Jardine, D L ^a   Bailey, W ^a   Florkowski, C M ^a  

^a CHRISTCHURCH HOSPITAL   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Intussusception; Renal infarction; Sympathetic nerve activity; Variegate porphyria

Indexed keywords

PHENYTOIN; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ABDOMEN; ABDOMINAL PAIN; ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; AUTONOMIC DYSFUNCTION; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; BLOOD PRESSURE; CASE REPORT; CHOLINERGIC SYSTEM; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONSTIPATION; CONVALESCENCE; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DISEASE ACTIVITY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE COURSE; GRAND MAL SEIZURE; HEART RATE AND RHYTHM; HEART STROKE VOLUME; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; HYPOTENSION; HYPOVOLEMIA; INSOMNIA; INTUSSUSCEPTION; IRRITABILITY; KIDNEY; KIDNEY INFARCTION; LABORATORY TEST; MALE; MEDICAL EXAMINATION; ORTHOSTATIC HYPOTENSION; PORPHYRIA VARIEGATA; PRESSORECEPTOR REFLEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIDE EFFECT; SPLANCHNIC NERVE; SUPINE POSITION; SYMPATHETIC TONE; TACHYCARDIA; URETHRA; URETHRAL DISCHARGE; VALSALVA MANEUVER;

ACUTE DISEASE; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; HUMANS; INFARCTION; INTUSSUSCEPTION; JEJUNAL DISEASES; KIDNEY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PORPHYRIAS, HEPATIC;

EID: 2442591524     PISSN: 00365521     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00365520410008395     Document Type: Article

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