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Wernicke Encephalopathy - Acute B1 (Thiamine) Deficiency - Diagnosis and Management
Diagnosis - Caine Criteria (2 of
Diagnosis and Management ... Changes in mental status ... treatment can improve symptoms ... development of Korsakoff syndrome ... #Diagnosis #Management
Risk Factors and Signs of Copper Deficiency
Risk Factors:
 • Gastrointestinal: Previous upper bowel resection/bariatric surgery, Inflammatory
Signs of Copper Deficiency ... diarrhoea, Short bowel syndrome ... drkeithsiau #Copper #Deficiency ... #riskfactors #symptoms ... #nutrition
Clinically Important Vitamins and Vitamin Deficiency States
Fat-soluble Vitamins: 
 • Vitamin A - Xerophthalmia, night blindness,
Vitamins and Vitamin Deficiency ... States Fat-soluble ... Wernicke-Korsakoff syndrome ... diagnosis #signs #symptoms ... #nutrition
Refeeding Syndrome Overview

What Is It?
	• Electrolyte/fluid shifts caused by initiation of nutrition in severely malnourished patient.
initiation of nutrition ... due to chronic disease ... Post-operative state ... overload) Other Symptoms ... • Vitamin D deficiency
Prevention and Treatment of Nutritional Complications after Bariatric Surgery
Types of Bariatric Surgery:
 • Adjustable Gastric Banding
and Treatment of Nutritional ... Switch (BPD-DS) Management ... Surgery: • Dumping Syndrome ... Hypoglycemia • Kidney Stones ... Gallstones • Liver Disease
Vitamin B12 (Cobalamin) Deficiency
Etiology:
 • Vit B12 - aka cobalamin. Present in foods derived from animal
B12 (Cobalamin) Deficiency ... to IBD, celiac disease ... malabsorptive state ... #diagnosis #management ... #nutrition
Scurvy (Vitamin C Deficiency) - Diagnosis and Management

Vitamin C is required for hydroxylation of proline residues
Scurvy (Vitamin C Deficiency ... Diagnosis and Management ... musculoskeletal symptoms ... Psychiatric symptoms ... nonimmune hemolysis MSK
Ketosis Disorders
Ketone bodies are a normal metabolic energy source. Excessive unregulated production of ketones, often accompanied
seen in several disease ... states: • Starvation ... of re-feeding syndrome ... complete insulin deficiency ... differential #diagnosis #management
The Stages of Syphilis 

Primary Syphilis 
- The chancre lesion is the hallmark of primary syphilis.
and nephrotic syndrome ... exposure to or symptoms ... roots, causing a syndrome ... to those of B12 deficiency ... of Infectious Diseases
Syphilis - Clinical Manifestations and Treatment

1) Primary Syphilis
 • Direct lesion contact during sex is responsible
Albuminuria, nephrotic syndrome ... meningovascular disease ... ulcerated • MSK ... infected without symptoms ... #diagnosis #management