Publication year
2003Source
Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Geneeskunde, 147, 36, (2003), pp. 1720-1ISSN
Publication type
Article / Letter to editor

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Internal Medicine
Journal title
Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Geneeskunde
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vol. 147
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iss. 36
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p. 1720
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p. 1
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EBP 3: Effective Primary Care and Public Health; UMCN 4.1: Microbial pathogenesis and host defenseAbstract
In recent years, patients in the Netherlands confront their doctors with the diagnosis 'haemopyrollactamuria' (HPU), based on the presence of the haemopyrrollactam complex in their urine. The diagnosis is made by a commercial laboratory in the Netherlands (www.keac.nl). We have not been able to find peer-reviewed scientific literature on this metabolic disease. The haemopyrrollactam complex represents the so-called mauve spot, which was the subject of much controversy in schizophrenia research in the previous century. Reviewing all of the available data, we feel that HPU should be classified as a pseudo-disease.
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