Homicide in acute porphyria.
The subject was a young man known to suffer from the intermittent (Swedish) form of this disorder, who committed homicide in an acute attack of porphyria and who died from the disease 7 days later. The family history and clinical features of the acute attack are reported. The paper includes a brief review of the literature, with reference to the psychiatric features of acute porphyria.
D000005:Abdomen; D000208:Acute Disease; D000328:Adult; D006708:Homicide; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010146:Pain; D010554:Personality Disorders / Q000209:etiology; D011164:Porphyrias / Q000150:complications / Q000235:genetics