Case records of the Massachusetts General Hospital. Case 20-2008. A 57-year-old woman with abdominal pain and weakness after gastric bypass surgery

N Engl J Med. 2008 Jun 26;358(26):2813-25. doi: 10.1056/NEJMcpc0803190.
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Publication types

  • Case Reports
  • Clinical Conference

MeSH terms

  • Abdominal Pain / etiology
  • Acute Disease
  • Brain / pathology
  • Cholecystectomy
  • Diagnosis, Differential
  • Female
  • Gastric Bypass*
  • Guillain-Barre Syndrome / diagnosis*
  • Heme / biosynthesis
  • Humans
  • Magnetic Resonance Imaging
  • Middle Aged
  • Porphyria, Variegate / complications
  • Porphyria, Variegate / diagnosis*
  • Porphyrias / complications
  • Porphyrias / diagnosis
  • Porphyrins / urine*
  • Postoperative Complications / etiology*
  • Quadriplegia / etiology
  • Sural Nerve / pathology*
  • Urine / chemistry*

Substances

  • Porphyrins
  • Heme