Several references as well as significant clinical experience indicate non-porphyrinogenicity.
Chemical description
Opioid analgesic often used in acute porphyric crisis. After conjugation with glucuronic acid to morphine-3-glucuronide it is eliminated by the kidneys. MFM James, RJ Hift. Porphyrias. Br J Anaesth 2000; 85, 143-53: use EPI-list: safe South African list: use French list: use Kalman, Bonkovsky: safe Anderson KE: Effects of antihypertensive drugs on hepatic heme biosynthesis, and evaluation of ferrochelatase inhibitors to simplify testing of drugs for heme pathway induction.Biochem Biophys Acta 543:313, 1978: safe Moore MR, Hift RJ: Drugs in the acute porphyrias. Cell Mol Biol 43:89, 1997: probably safe.
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Uneventful use reported in 41 patients with acute porphyria.
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Effects of antihypertensive drugs on hepatic heme biosynthesis, and evaluation of ferrochelatase inhibitors to simplify testing of drugs for heme pathway induction.
Anderson KE. Biochim Biophys Acta. 1978 Oct; 543(3):313-27.