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Introduction: Acute intermittent porphyria (AIP) is characterized by acute neuropsychiatric and potentially life-threatening attacks precipitated by endogenous or environmental factors, such as reproductive hormones, fasting, stress, infection, certain porphyrinogenic drugs and alcohol, that is, factors requiring increased hepatic heme biosynthesis.
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