Urinary excretion of D-glucaric acid in porphyria cutanea tarda.
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Twenty patients with porphyria cutanea tarda who had ingested no alcohol for at least 10 days before sampling were found to possess urinary D-glucaric acid levels similar to those of 30 clinically healthy controls. Correlation between urinary excretion of D-glucaric acid on the one hand and plasma or urinary porphyrin concentrations on the other was not statistically significant. These results suggest that the high urinary concentrations of D-glucaric acid found in porphyria cutanea tarda patients by Budillon et al. (Acta Hepato-Gastroenterol. 25 (1978) 267) may have been due to recent consumption of alcohol rather than to the porphyrin pathology.
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عنوان ژورنال:
- Journal of clinical chemistry and clinical biochemistry. Zeitschrift fur klinische Chemie und klinische Biochemie
دوره 25 12 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 1987