Liver Transplantation because of Acute Liver Failure due to Heme Arginate Overdose in a Patient with Acute Intermittent Porphyria

Liver Transplantation because of Acute Liver Failure due to Heme Arginate Overdose in a Patient with Acute Intermittent Porphyria

In acute attacks of acute intermittent porphyria, the mainstay of treatment is glucose and heme arginate administration. We present the case of a 58-year-old patient with acute liver failure requiring urgent liver transplantation after erroneous 6-fold overdose of heme arginate during an acute attac...

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Main Authors: Frei, Pascal, Minder, Elisabeth I., Corti, Natascia, Muellhaupt, Beat, Geier, Andreas, Adams, Heiner, Dutertre, Jean-Paul, Rudiger, Alain, Dutkowski, Philipp, Maggiorini, Marco, Ganter, Christoph C.
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: S. Karger AG 2012
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3362186/

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