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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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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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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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Studies in Beriberi [PDF]

The American Journal of the Medical Sciences, 1907
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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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Assessment of Erythrocyte Transketolase, Whole Blood Thiamine Diphosphate, and Human Milk Thiamine Concentrations to Identify Infants and Young Children Responding Favorably to Therapeutic Thiamine Administration: Findings from the Lao Thiamine Study, a Prospective Cohort Study

Current Developments in Nutrition
Background: There is limited information on relationships among biomarkers of thiamine status (whole blood thiamine diphosphate [ThDP], erythrocyte transketolase activity coefficient [ETKac], and human milk thiamine [MTh]) and clinical manifestations of ...
Sonja Y Hess, Taryn J Smith, Charles D Arnold, Kerry S Jones, Daniela Hampel, Laurent Hiffler, Indi Trehan, Philip R Fischer, Sarah R Meadows, Damon A Parkington, Kenneth H Brown, Dalaphone Sitthideth, Xiuping Tan, Albert Koulman, Lindsay H Allen, Sengchanh Kounnavong   +15 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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Cardiovascular magnetic resonance in wet beriberi

Journal of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance, 2011
The clinical presentation of beriberi can be quite varied. In the extreme form, profound cardiovascular involvement leads to circulatory collapse and death.
Giri Shivraman, Smith Sakima, Velez Michael R, Essa Essa, Raman Subha V, Gumina Richard J   +5 more
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The History of the Discovery of Vitamin K

Basic &Clinical Pharmacology &Toxicology, Volume 139, Issue 3, September 2026.
ABSTRACT Vitamin K was discovered during the 1930s when a strange haemorrhagic disorder was observed in chickens fed a cholesterol‐free diet. A fat‐soluble agent, present in green leafy vegetables and hog liver, was able to restore haemostasis in the chickens.
Hanna Nørgaard Tuxen, Laila Zwisler, Allan Linneberg   +2 more
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Encounters With Traditional Medicine and Further Multidisciplinary and International Cooperation

Traditional &Kampo Medicine, Volume 13, Issue 2, August 2026.
ABSTRACT Background The integration of traditional medicine (TM) into modern healthcare has gained global momentum. Following the inclusion of TM in the 11th revision of the International Classification of Diseases, multidisciplinary and international cooperation has become increasingly essential.
Kokoro Ichihara, Ryota Sakoda, Yuto Matsuura, Hong‐Wook Choi, Toshiaki Makino, Tomoko Suzuki, Shin Takayama   +6 more
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