Introduction In 2012 we celebrate the centenary of Dr Casimir Funk’s discovery of the 'vitamine'. Funk was the first to suggest the existence of a family of organic substances that are essential for life, which the world now takes for granted. He was thus the godfather of the vitamin movement. Funk conceived the concept of “vital amines”; essential nutrients with a specific action, requiring on...

Patients having had an ileal resection or a significant segment of ileum excluded and used for construction of a continent urinary diversion as well as those in whom radiation treatment of gynaecological , bladder or -rectal cancer have injurred distal small bowel all these patients will develop a characteristic malabsorbtion syndrome, a "terminal ileopathy" Patients often suffer a troublesome ...

Les vitamines sont des nutriments essentiels au bon fonctionnement cellules mammifères mais celles-ci ne généralement pas capables de les synthétiser, ou en quantité suffisante pour couvrir besoins l’organisme entier. Elles participent à la plupart fonctions biologiques cellulaires et tous stades physiologiques individus. Il est important que spécifiques soient couverts par apports nutritionnel...

with tachycardia. The electrocardiogram showed diffuse repolarization abnormalities. There was a significant rise of the troponin, serum creatine kinases, and lactate dehydrogenase levels. Cardiac ultrasound confirmed the diagnosis of myocarditis. Physical examination revealed intense face paleness, mild paresis in lower limbs and abdominal distension. There was no abnormality in heart and lung...