porphyria cutanea tarda

And I will come out of the gate and say it's not really true that this is where vampires come from.

But there's a lot of crossover between the urban legend of what a vampire is and does and a skin condition called porphyria cutanea tarda.

Interesting.

What's the link between that? So first off, porphyria cutanea tarda falls into this category of conditions called porphyrias.

And it is an error of making heme, or the stuff that goes in your red blood cells that carries oxygen around the skin.

And so when you can't make heme, you have significant problems.

That means they tend to affect the skin mostly.

But at advanced stages, they will end up affecting the body too.

Okay, so abdominal pain, red slash pink urine, neuropsychiatric disturbances, and autosomal dominant.

It can be associated with hepatitis similar to porphyria cutanea tarda.

Wrong fucking answer.

Should I say

Associated with alcohol and hepatitis C. It's not complicated.

Okay, so it's just memorizing the enzymes.

They can tell you that urinary porphyrins... are increased in porphyria cutanea tarda.

I've seen that as well.

How? How? Anyway, so bloodletting did not vanish completely because every idea behind it was nonsense.

Therapeutic phlebotomy, meaning controlled removal of blood, is still an evidence-based treatment for a few specific conditions, including iron overload, From hemochromatosis, polycythemia vera, and porphyria cutanea.

Cutanea.

Cutanea.

I think I said the same thing in our Porphyria episode.

I think I did the same thing.

Cutanea.

I hadn't done one of these to crack you up in a while, okay? Maybe I did it on purpose.