Porphyria Cutanea Tarda in a Patient with End-Stage Renal Disease: A Case of Successful Treatment with Deferoxamine and Ferric Carboxymaltose

Porphyria cutanea tarda (PCT) is a rare disease, with a strong association with hepatitis C virus. PCT is particularly problematic in end-stage renal disease patients as they have no renal excretion of porphyrins and these are poorly dialyzed. Also, conventional treatment of PCT is compromised in th...

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Autores principales: Rodrigues, Natacha, Caeiro, Fernando, Santana, Alice, Mendes, Teresa, Lopes, Leonor
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2017
Materias:
Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5292176/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28210512
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2017/4591871

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