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Facts About Thiamin

EDIS, 2012
A lack of thiamin causes the disease beriberi. People with beriberi have difficulty standing, walking, and controlling their muscles. It’s very easy to get enough thiamin in the diet because it’s added to many processed grains.
R. Elaine Turner, Wendy J. Dahl
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Perfil epidemiológico do beribéri notificado de 2006 a 2008 no Estado do Maranhão, Brasil Epidemiological profile of reported beriberi cases in Maranhão State, Brazil, 2006-2008

Cadernos de Saúde Pública, 2011
O objetivo do estudo foi descrever o perfil epidemiológico dos casos e óbitos de beribéri notificados de 2006-2008 no Estado do Maranhão, Brasil. Informações foram obtidas de fichas de notificação da Secretaria de Estado da Saúde do Maranhão e utilizou ...
Estela Maura Padilha, Elizabeth Fujimori, Ana Luiza Vilela Borges, Ana Paula Sayuri Sato, Murilo Novaes Gomes, Maria dos Remédios Freitas Carvalho Branco, Henrique Jorge dos Santos, Nulvio Lermen Junior   +7 more
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Wernicke encephalopathy and beriberi disease presenting as STEMI-equivalent

Monaldi Archives for Chest Disease, 2023
Thiamine deficiency is commonly associated with malnutrition, alcoholism and bariatric surgery. Thiamine deficiency can manifest in different ways, especially in developing countries: as peripheric neuropathy, as Wernicke encephalopathy or as beriberi ...
Miguel Martins Carvalho, Tânia Proença, Ricardo Alves Pinto, Roberto Pinto, Filipe Macedo   +4 more
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Shoshin Beriberi Induced by Long-Term Administration of Diuretics: A Case Report

Case Reports in Cardiology, 2014
Previous studies have suggested that diuretic therapy for heart failure may lead to thiamine deficiency due to the increased urinary thiamine excretion.
Naoki Misumida, Hisashi Umeda, Mitsunori Iwase   +2 more
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Beriberi and Pyruvic Acid

The Tohoku Journal of Experimental Medicine, 1951
Akira Sato
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Thiamine-Responsive Acute Pulmonary Hypertension of Early Infancy (TRAPHEI)—A Case Series and Clinical Review

Children, 2020
Persistent pulmonary hypertension of the newborn (PPHN) is a syndrome of high pulmonary vascular resistance (PVR) commonly seen all over the world in the immediate newborn period.
Nalinikanta Panigrahy, Dinesh Kumar Chirla, Rakshay Shetty, Farhan A. R. Shaikh, Poddutoor Preetham Kumar, Rajeshwari Madappa, Anand Lingan, Satyan Lakshminrusimha   +7 more
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Seeing double: the low-carb diet [PDF]

, 2013
No abstract ...
Drummond, Russell S., Drummond, Suzannah, Lean, Michael E.J., McKenna, Louise A., Talwar, Dinesh   +4 more
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Un brote de beriberi en una cárcel colombiana

Biomédica: revista del Instituto Nacional de Salud, 1998
Se realizó una investigación de campo en Leticia (Amazonas) con el fin de esclarecer la causa del fallecimiento de un joven recluso en la cárcel municipal.
Fernando de la Hoz, Ligia Peréz, Victor A. Olano, Bernardo Buitrago   +3 more
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Severe acute axonal neuropathy following treatment with arsenic trioxide for acute promyelocytic leukemia: a case report [PDF]

, 2016
Peripheral neuropathy is a common complication of arsenic toxicity. Symptoms are usually mild and reversible following discontinuation of treatment. A more severe chronic sensorimotor polyneuropathy characterized by distal axonal-loss neuropathy can be ...
Kuhn, Marcus, Nabergoj, Mithia, Sammartin, Kety, Vianello, Fabrizio   +3 more
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No Camphor Toxicity in Cambodian Infants

Global Pediatric Health, 2017
Thiamine deficiency and beriberi are prevalent in Cambodia, although most infants with nonspecific clinical symptoms of beriberi, including tachypnea, lack echocardiographic evidence diagnostic of the disease.
Casey R. Johnson MS, Samuel G. Porter MD, Debra Coats MSN, Kyly C. Whitfield PhD, Khin Mengkheang MS, Mark D. Topazian MD, Philip R. Fischer MD   +6 more
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