Acute porphyrias may be overlooked in patients taking methenamine hippurate

Clin Chem Lab Med. 2010 Sep;48(9):1355-7. doi: 10.1515/CCLM.2010.253.
No abstract available

Publication types

  • Case Reports
  • Letter

MeSH terms

  • Aged
  • Aminolevulinic Acid / urine
  • Artifacts*
  • Diagnostic Errors*
  • Female
  • Hippurates / pharmacology*
  • Humans
  • Methenamine / analogs & derivatives*
  • Methenamine / pharmacology
  • Porphobilinogen / urine
  • Porphyria, Acute Intermittent / diagnosis*
  • Porphyria, Acute Intermittent / urine*
  • Uroporphyrins / urine
  • Young Adult

Substances

  • Hippurates
  • Uroporphyrins
  • Porphobilinogen
  • Aminolevulinic Acid
  • Methenamine
  • methenamine hippurate