RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Cerebral vasospasm and anterior circulation stroke secondary to an exacerbation of hereditary corproporphyria
JF Practical Neurology
JO Pract Neurol
FD BMJ Publishing Group Ltd
SP 384
OP 387
DO 10.1136/practneurol-2012-000288
VO 12
IS 6
A1 Mullin, Stephen
A1 Platts, Andrew
A1 Randhawa, Kashmir
A1 Watts, Paul
YR 2012
UL http://pn.bmj.com/content/12/6/384.abstract
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.