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Phlebotomy in Sporadic Porphyria Cutanea Tarda

Arch Dermatol. 2003;139:379-380.

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SINCE ANTIQUITY, blood extraction (phlebotomy) has been empirically and largely used for many conditions and illnesses because it was thought that blood accumulation was the cause or consequence of the trouble. Galen himself proposed this method for different conditions. But for those who are not in the field of medicine, it could be astonishing that this gory and archaic method is still useful in the beginning of the 21st century.

On the other hand, after the description of the first anecdotal cases, the history of porphyrias is now more than 90 years old. The first basic studies of Günther¹ recognized the existence of acute, chronic, and congenital forms. In 1937, Waldenstrom² identified these diseases as being due to porphyrin metabolism abnormalities, and 17 years later, in 1954, the Minneapolis School³ proposed a classification according to the main organ of the abnormal porphyrin overproduction (liver in hepatic porphyrias and bone marrow . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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