PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Stephen Mullin
AU  - Andrew Platts
AU  - Kashmir Randhawa
AU  - Paul Watts
TI  - Cerebral vasospasm and anterior circulation stroke secondary to an exacerbation of hereditary corproporphyria
AID  - 10.1136/practneurol-2012-000288
DP  - 2012 Dec 01
TA  - Practical Neurology
PG  - 384--387
VI  - 12
IP  - 6
4099  - http://pn.bmj.com/content/12/6/384.short
4100  - http://pn.bmj.com/content/12/6/384.full
SO  - Pract Neurol2012 Dec 01; 12
AB  - Acute porphyria, though rare, has well-known neurological sequelae. Vasospasm rarely complicates exacerbations of acute intermittent porphyria, but has not been previously reported in hereditary coproporphyria. We describe a porphyric crisis in a woman with previously undiagnosed hereditary coproporphyria (triggered by rifampicin), leading to vasospasm and stroke.