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PORPHYRIA FACTS: PSYCHIATRIC PARANOIA
Paranoia can be especially severe during acute attacks.
SOURCE:
"The Porphyrias"
Karl E. Anderson M.D.
HEPATOLOGY:
A Textbook of Liver Disease
W.B. Saunders Company
Philadephia 1996
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Can paranoia be associated with acute attacks of porphyria?
There can be emotional and psychiatric problems such
as paranoia.
SOURCE:
The Canadian Porphyria Foundation Inc.
Neepawa, Manitoba, Canada
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Can paranoia be severe during acute attacks?
Paranoia can be especially severe during acute attacks.
"The Porphyrias"
Karl E. Anderson M.D.
HEPATOLOGY:
A Textbook of Liver Disease
W.B. Saunders Company
Philadephia 1996
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Paranoia, as CNS involvement in porphyria is known as the so-called porphyric
encephalopathy.
SOURCE:
Acute Porphyrias: Pathogenesis of
Neurological Manifestations
Urs. A Meyers M.D. et. al.
Seminars in Liver Disease
Vol. 18, Number 1
January 1998
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Paranonia can sometimes be quite apparent during an acute attacks.
SOURCE:
Dr. Kenneth Carlson
Neuropsychiatric Medicine
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Acute porphyria patients can suddenly appear not to trust anyone.
This is considered part of the paranoia which patients can experience during
mental changes in porphyria attacks.
SOURCE:
Robert Johsnon MD
Internal Medicine
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There can be emotional and psychiatric problems such as paranoia.
SOURCE:
The Canadian Porphyria Foundation Inc.
Neepawa, Manitoba, Canada
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Paranoia can be especially severe during acute attacks.
SOURCE:
"The Porphyrias"
Karl E. Anderson M.D.
HEPATOLOGY:
A Textbook of Liver Disease
W.B. Saunders Company
Philadephia 1996
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This is part of the paranoia that some acute porphyria patients experience during
paranoia associated with mental change.
SOURCE:
Dr. Kenneth Carlson
Neuropsychiatric Medicine
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Acute porphyria patients also seem to be quite suspicious of those around them,
especially medical personnel rendering them profesional care.
SOURCE:
Robert Johsnon MD
Internal Medicine
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Paranoia. can be seen in the mental changes that occurs during porphyria
episodes.
SOURCE:
Dr. Kenneth Carlson
Neuropsychiatric Medicine
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Mental change characterized as paranoia is often displayed by suspicion,
delusions of persecution and jealousy
SOURCE:
Dr. Kenneth Carlson
Neuropsychiatric Medicine
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Paranoia has been documented.
SOURCE:
Psychiatric symptoms of inherited metabolic disease.
Estrov Y, Scaglia F, Bodamer OA.
Department of Psychiatry
University of California, San Diego
Journal of Inherited Metabolic Disease
2000 Feb;23(1):2-6
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