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The Electrocardiogram in Pellagra.
Deficiency in thiamin, a factor of the vitamin B complex, may cause severe circulatory insufficiency. It is, therefore, of interest to study the circulation in another type of B-avitaminosis-pellagra. The circulatory disturbances encountered in pellagra are of no great clinical significance. Frequently low arterial pressure and tachycardia are present. CEdema, if there is any, can scarcely be a...
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Pellagra is a disease with a considerable historical background. It was mentioned first in the seventeenth century as occurring in Spain and in 1735 it was described accurately by Gasper Casal. His book was not, however, published until 1762. Figure 1 is a reproduction from this book (Major, 1932). Meanwhile M. Thiery described the disease in the Journal de Medecine, Chirurgiv et Pharmacie (Par...
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Pellagra was first described in the 18th century as an epidemic in the poverty-stricken Spanish countryside by Gaspar Casal. Pellagra did not appear in the United States until the turn of the 20th century. It then ravaged the Southern United States and was not eliminated until the 1940s. This short report will redact the descriptions of pellagra in two early textbooks of dermatology. The first,...
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are only 34 cases more reported from different parts of India and one from Burma. Out of the 34 cases 12 were seen in Southern India (Guntur 4, Vizagapatam 8), one in Poona, 16 in the Punjab (Lahore 1, Kangra District 15) and 5 in Calcutta. Napier (1939) reports that they encounter 6 to 12 cases a year in the outdoor clinic of the Calcutta School of Tropical Medicine. No cases have yet been rep...
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can physican, who has closely studied the disease on the continent of Europe as well as in the West and with a close acquaintance with the scattered literature of the subject. He describes the history and prevalence of t,he disease in Spain, Italy, Egypt and America, and points out that it is at present a much more acute disease in the last mentioned country. A full clinical description of the ...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Heart
سال: 1940
ISSN: 1355-6037
DOI: 10.1136/hrt.2.2.85