it is proposed that the effect of phlebotomy on patients with porphyria cutanea tarda is to mobilze storage iron in the liver to the active ferrous form , which activates hepatic uroporphyrinogen decarboxylase , the enzyme which is defective in this syndrome , with resultant clinical and biochemical remission .
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porphyria cutanea tarda
C0042085
uroporphyrinogen decarboxylase