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Clinically Important Vitamins and Vitamin Deficiency States
Fat-soluble Vitamins: 
 • Vitamin A - Xerophthalmia, night blindness,
and Vitamin Deficiency ... : • Vitamin A ... #Deficiency #differential ... #diagnosis #signs ... #symptoms #nutrition
Risk Factors and Signs of Copper Deficiency
Risk Factors:
 • Gastrointestinal: Previous upper bowel resection/bariatric surgery, Inflammatory
Risk Factors and Signs ... of copper-rich foods ... , Malnutrition Signs ... Deficiency #diagnosis #signs ... #riskfactors #symptoms
Important Causes of RUQ and Midline Abdominal Pain - Illness Scripts
PUD, Gastroenteritis, Small bowel obstruction, Appendicitis,
bowel obstruction, Appendicitis ... AbdominalPain #differential ... #diagnosis #signs ... #symptoms
Refeeding Syndrome Overview

What Is It?
	• Electrolyte/fluid shifts caused by initiation of nutrition in severely malnourished patient.
initiation of nutrition ... Hypo-Mg2+ • Vitamin ... overload) Other Symptoms ... • Pellagra • Vitamin ... #Differential #
Vitamin B12 (Cobalamin) Deficiency
Etiology:
 • Vit B12 - aka cobalamin. Present in foods derived from animal
Vitamin B12 (Cobalamin ... Present in foods ... to manifest its symptoms ... , alcohol use, symptoms ... diagnosis #management #nutrition
Tongue Pathology 

Geographic tongue, fissured tongue, and hairy tongue are the most common tongue problems and
an underlying nutritional ... iron, folic acid, vitamin ... require biopsy to differentiate ... duration, antecedent symptoms
Transverse Myelitis Overview

Focal inflammatory disorder of the spinal cord resulting in rapid onset of weakness, sensory
• Bilateral signs ... and/or symptoms ... MS) • Check Vitamin ... antibodies • Nutritional ... management #neurology #differential
Bulimia Nervosa: Complications
GASTROINTESTINAL
 • Dehydration & inability to digest food -> Constipation
 • Recurrent vomiting exposes
• Binging on foods ... LH levels) and vitamin ... Cardiac Arrest #BulimiaNervosa ... pathophysiology #diagnosis #signs ... #symptoms #psychiatry
Myelodysplastic Syndromes (MDS)

What?
Myelodysplastic syndromes are a group of disorders caused by blood cells that are poorly
age 70 years Symptoms ... Platelet Disorders • Nutritional ... : vitamin B12 or ... blood count with differential