Moghe and team publish study on acute hepatic porphyria

Akshata Moghe, MD, PhD, assistant professor of medicine in the Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology & Nutrition, and colleagues recently published research examining the use of intravenous hemin to prevent recurrent attacks of acute hepatic porphyria, a rare group of metabolic disorders for which conducting randomized controlled trials can be challenging.

Moghe A, Kormos-Hallberg C, Villasante-Tezanos A, Anderson KE. Intravenous hemin for prevention of frequent attacks of acute hepatic porphyria – a double-blind placebo controlled pilot study. Mol Genet Metab. 2026 Sep 24;149(3):110280. doi: 10.1016/j.ymgme.2026.110280. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 42828920.

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