Fatal neurological manifestations of acute intermittent porphyria

الملخص EN

Three patients of acute intermittent porphyrias (AIP) with severe neurological involvement from Bahrain are reported.

All had some symptoms referable to gastrointestinal tract.

One patient had presented at the age of fifty years for the first time.

One was treated with Hematin.

All of them had fatal outcome.

This is the first report of porphyria from Bahrain.