Porphyria Presenting as Diffuse Encephalopathy

Authors

  • J Gordon Millichap Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.15844/pedneurbriefs-19-5-6

Keywords:

Acute Intermittent Porphyria, Dysautonomia, Tachycardia

Abstract

An 18-year-old female presenting with seizures, myalgias, abdominal pain, headache and vomiting had multiple large contrast-enhancing white matter lesions on MRI and was diagnosed with acute intermittent porphyria (AIP), in a report from the Department of Neurology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN.

Published

2005-05-01

Issue

Section

Encephalitis / Encephalopathy