Aucte intermittent porphyria and epilepsy.
A 14-year-old boy had suffered from intermittent acute hepatic porphyria, myoclonic convulsions and mental retardation (Lennox-Gastaut syndrome). The porphyria was treated by stopping the administration of phenobarbitone and phenytoin. Sodium valproate at a dose of 70 mg/kg per day lessened the severity and frequency of convulsive crises.
D000208:Acute Disease; D000293:Adolescent; D004831:Epilepsies, Myoclonic / Q000150:complications*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011164:Porphyrias / Q000150:complications*; D013577:Syndrome