It is Rare Disease Week on Capitol Hill (2/25-3/1/2018) and I have some great news to share. In the midst of writing my 2018 FFFF white paper (this year titled STILL FEAR-RIDDEN, FRUSTRATED, FORGOTTEN AND FED-UP: Atypical Acute Porphyria Patients STILL Stuck in Urinary Diagnostic Quagmire), I was presented with some game-changing information. There is […]
Purple Canaries
Joyce Gould with Jill Gould
Mayo Clinic porphyria
“Porphyria in Africa” article written in 1958 confirms Waldenstrom’s 1939 findings.
From the 1958 article “Porphyria in Africa” by A.G. Shaper, section titled “The Urine in Acute Intermittent Porphyria”: “To complicate matters, in a recent survey of 80 cases seen at the Mayo Clinic it was noted that no porphobilinogen was found in nine cases with severe CNS involvement and in six cases with abdominal crisis…It should […]