Dry beriberi in a slimmer.
نویسندگان
چکیده
منابع مشابه
Rapidly progressive polyneuropathy due to dry beriberi in a man: a case report
INTRODUCTION We describe a case of rapidly progressive and severely debilitating polyneuropathy in a patient with confirmed hypovitaminosis B1, consistent with dry beriberi. Crucially, this is a treatable condition, although sometimes with incomplete recovery, but it is probably under-recognized yet increasingly common given increasing levels of alcohol abuse in the western world. CASE PRESEN...
متن کاملA New Disease in Calcutta (Beriberi?)
face and neck. The bowels are affected from the beginning with dysentery ; or if not, these are prone to its attack on the slightest irritation, such as is caused by a mild dose of castor oil. The lungs are also affected in some, and moist crepitation is the usual stethoscopic indication. In one person hemorrhagic dysentery and swelling of the legs and feet commenced simultaneously from the beg...
متن کاملBeriberi heart in Iowa veterans.
Beriberi heart disease does not constitute a rigid syndrome because the severity of cardiac failure, associated leriplleral neuritis, other concomitant signs and syimptomiis, and response to treatment are variable. Five lpatiellts with peripheral neuritis, edema and evidence of cardiac failure are presented. All improved after treatment, and, in two instances, there was marked reduction in card...
متن کاملAcute Dropsy (Beriberi?.)
finement in which she lives; menstruates regularly; liver and spleen of normal size ; no tenderness on pressure over either organ. The disease began about the middle of October, when she suffered from slight diarrhoea and profuse discharge of urine. I afterwards noticed that her feet and legs began to swell; the swelling came on gradually, and was hardly noticed at first: as it progressed she s...
متن کاملLonger Sleep – Slimmer Kids: The ENERGY-Project
BACKGROUND Few studies have differentiated between weekday and weekend day sleep duration in their association with indicators of weight status in children. Therefore, we examined the association of week and weekend day sleep duration with indicators of body composition in 10-12 year old European school children. METHODS AND FINDINGS Multi-level linear regression analysis was performed to exa...
متن کاملذخیره در منابع من
با ذخیره ی این منبع در منابع من، دسترسی به آن را برای استفاده های بعدی آسان تر کنید
ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: BMJ
سال: 1977
ISSN: 0959-8138,1468-5833
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.2.6103.1634