ABSTRACT Background: Acute hepatic porphyrias represent an expanding group of complex inherited metabolic disorders due to inborn errors metabolism involving heme biosynthesis. Objective: We aimed review the main clinical and therapeutic aspects associated with acute porphyrias. Methods: The authors provided a wide non-systematic current concepts recently acquired knowledge about Results: neuro...

INTRODUCTION We are currently seeing many changes in urgent neurological care, in the context of the progressive development of the specialty and of the increasing population and care demand. SOURCES Medline and documentation obtained from the Spanish Society of Neurology (SEN) were employed as main data sources to review papers on the matter published in our country. We found articles descri...

PURPOSE India has an epilepsy treatment gap of up to 90%. Shortage of doctors, especially in rural communities makes getting epilepsy treatment almost impossible for the vast majority. Nurses are relatively more in number and available even in smaller cities and villages. This pilot study investigated if a nurse-led epilepsy follow-up clinic is feasible in India and is acceptable to patients. ...