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Shoshin Beriberi in a Child With Intestinal Failure: A Case Report.
Crit Care Explor
December 2024
Section of Pediatric Critical Care, Department of Pediatrics, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, Alberta Children's Hospital, Calgary, AB, Canada.
Background: Acute illness states with increased metabolic demand can precipitate severe thiamine deficiency if physiologic needs exceed endogenous stores and supplementation. Patients with preexisting risk factors such as parenteral nutrition (PN) dependence, eating disorders, gastrointestinal disorders, or surgeries are especially vulnerable.
Case Summary: A 9-year-old girl with short bowel syndrome receiving long-term PN, including standard thiamine supplementation, presented with refractory shock following aspiration.
Clinical profile and thiamine transporter gene (SLC19A2 and SLC19A3) variations in infants with thiamine-responsive pulmonary hypertension and acute respiratory infection.
J Trop Pediatr
August 2024
Department of Clinical Medicine, American University of Antigua College of Medicine, Antigua and Barbuda.
Article Synopsis
- * This study compared infants diagnosed with TRPHTN and acute respiratory infection (ARI) to understand the differences in their presentation and investigated genetic variations in Thiamine transporter genes without finding conclusive results.
- * The research involved 82 infants, revealing that TRPHTN had specific symptoms and risk factors, while lactate and pulmonary pressure measurements proved effective in identifying thiamine deficiency issues.
Beriberi following sleeve gastrectomy.
Pract Neurol
July 2024
Neurology Department, Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Oxford, UK
Bariatric surgery is being undertaken more frequently in response to rising levels of obesity but is increasingly also requested as a cosmetic choice. Nutritional deficiencies are a recognised consequence of gastrectomy, with potentially severe and permanent neurological sequelae. We present two cases of acute, severe polyneuropathy following sleeve gastrectomy.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe role of CT brain findings in the early diagnosis of infantile encephalitic beriberi.
Neuroradiology
June 2024
Department of Pediatrics, Govt Medical College, Srinagar, J&K, India.
Background: Thiamine deficiency disease may occur in infants from thiamine-deficient mothers in developing countries, as well as in infants fed solely with soy-based formula. Thiamine deficiency in infants may present with acute neurological manifestations of infantile encephalitic beriberi.
Objective: To review the role of noncontrast CT brain findings in infantile encephalitic beriberi in early diagnosis.
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