Germany (Chemnitz)

This centre has been endorsed by Ipnet as a Porphyria Expert Clinical Centre (PECC).
Diagnosis and Treatment of acute and not acute, hepatic and erythropoietic porphyrias
Care for in-and-out patients with porphyria
Integrated Intensive Care Unit for patients with severe attacks (hyponatremia, mechanical ventilation)
Liver diagnostic, biopsy (wood light), elastography, endoscopy, ultrasound, endoscopic ultrasound and operations
Mutational analysis in cooperation with other laboratories
Laboratory diagnosis in cooperation with MVZ Karlsruhe
Nutrition and lifestyle analysis with counseling
Counseling for trigger factor elimination
Counseling for patient´s disease understanding, explain biochemical basics on porphyrias
Education and advanced training in diagnosis and treatment of porphyrias via special online seminars, meetings and as preceptorship
Treatment:
Acute porphyrias
Heme therapy, Givosiran, caloric support, pain management, symptom treatment
PCT
Phlebotomy, iron depletion, low dose hydroxychloroquine
Hepatitis C eradication
EPP, XLP
Afamelanotid, in XLP iron substitution