Hematin administration to an adult with lead intoxication
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Hematin administration to an adult with lead intoxication.
Lead poisoning and acute intermittent porphyria (AIP) may exhibit similar neurologic manifestations, and they have in common elevated excretion of urinary aminolevulinic acid (ALA). Despite their similarities, the possible pathophysiologic connection between AIP and lead poisoning in not known. Because intravenous hematin administration has produced biochemical improvement in AIP, a hematin tri...
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عنوان ژورنال: Blood
سال: 1979
ISSN: 0006-4971,1528-0020
DOI: 10.1182/blood.v53.5.1007.1007