...and there was no blood clot. Have you seen unilateral edema in thiamine deficiency/beriberi? Derrick Lonsdale Beriberi can be assymetric, a confounding
MoreWhy Publish Another Case? Just last week, we published a case of classic beriberi in a 23 year old man, and now,
MoreA desperate mother sent me an email about her 23-year-old son and it was easy to recognize that this young man had
More...so deeply ingrained that anybody claiming such a diagnosis is considered a fool. This seems to be particularly addressed to the classic
More...beriberi. I had several patients with cyclic vomiting, described in our book (Thiamine Deficiency Disease, Dysautonomia and High Calorie Malnutrition) that responded
More...few vegetables.This would cause beriberi with certainty. The point that I have tried to make is that low gastric acid and high
More...marker of infantile beriberi than the activation coefficient of the disease. Raised plasma troponin T may be additional useful indicator of infantile
More...investigators of that time to conclude that beriberi was due to a mysterious infection before the discovery of thiamine, the "anti-beriberi factor"
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