[group of disorders characterized by the excessive production of porphyrins or their precursors that arises from abnormalities in the regulation of the porphyrin-heme pathway; acquired porphyrias, which are due to inhibition of enzymes in the metabolic pathway by a drug, toxin or abnormal metabolite, are more common than those which are inherited. ( CSP )]
UMLS (ICD9CM) C0032708 Relation/PAR: Metabolic Disease
Congenital Metabolic Disorder
Skin Diseases, Metabolic
Relation/CHD: congenital erythropoietic porphyria
EPP (erythropoietic protoporphyria porphyria)
congenital hepatic porphyria
congenital erythropoietic porphyria
Porphyria, Hepatic
Porphyria, Erythrohepatic