Cultural References
AIP makes an appearance on the television show House in the Season 1, finale (Episode 22), wherein House diagnoses his ex-girlfriend's husband with the disease. Acute intermittent porphyria is also mentioned briefly in Season 4, Episode 4, "Guardian Angels." Porphyria is again briefly mentioned as the possible cause of "relapsing and remitting" symptoms (suggesting acute intermittent porphyria) in a patient in Season 4, Episode 6, "Whatever it Takes." Other types of porphyria also appeared on House. In season 3 episode 9, "Finding Judas", a little girl was diagnosed with Erythropoietic protoporphyria. In season 5 episode 10, "Let Them Eat Cake", House diagnoses another patient as having Hereditary coproporphyria. In season 7 episode 10, "Carrot or Stick", House diagnoses a father and a son with Variegate porphyria. In season 1 episode 6, "The Socratic Method," porphyria is mentioned as a differential diagnosis for psychiatric symptoms thought to be schizophrenia.
AIP has also made two appearances on the television show Scrubs: in the thirteenth episode of season 4, "My Ocardial Infarction," and in the ninth episode of season 7, "My Dumb Luck."
It later appeared in Castle: Vampire Weekend (Season 2, Episode 6), and in Grey's Anatomy: The Time Warp (Season 6, Episode 15).
Also in CSI: Crime Scene Investigators: Justice is Served (Season 1, Episode 21) aired 26 April 2001.
Series 4, episode 2 of Doc Martin also features a patient with porphyria.
Read more about this topic: Acute Intermittent Porphyria
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