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Clinically Important Vitamins and Vitamin Deficiency States
Fat-soluble Vitamins: 
 • Vitamin A - Xerophthalmia, night blindness,
Clinically Important ... : • Thiamine ... Wernicke-Korsakoff syndrome ... B12 - Anaemia, ... signs #symptoms #nutrition
Wernicke Encephalopathy - Acute B1 (Thiamine) Deficiency - Diagnosis and Management
Diagnosis - Caine Criteria (2 of
(Thiamine) Deficiency ... dysfunction (e.g. gait ... (chronic B1 deficiency ... #Thiamine #Deficiency ... Diagnosis #Management #neurology
Wernicke's Encephalopathy vs Korsakoff Syndrome - Thiamine Deficiency

Wernicke's encephalopathy is a neurological condition due to longstanding
- Thiamine Deficiency ... (vitamin B1) deficiency ... ataxia (broad-based gait ... #vitaminB1 #B1 # ... thiamine #deficiency
Micronutrient Deficiencies After Gastric Bypass
Fat-Soluble Vitamins:
 • Vitamin A - Night/complete blindness, xeropthalmia (pathologic dryness of
: • Thiamine - ... oculomotor dysfunction, gait ... ataxia), Korsakoff syndrome ... • Vitamin B12 ... #nutrition #table
Refeeding Syndrome Overview

What Is It?
	• Electrolyte/fluid shifts caused by initiation of nutrition in severely malnourished patient.
initiation of nutrition ... severe clinical ... Hypo-Mg2+ • Vitamin ... deficiency (thiamine ... D deficiency
Low Alkaline Phosphatase - Hypophosphatasia 

Is Low Alkaline Phosphatase Of Clinical Importance?

ALP enzyme- Discovered in 1923
Low
Phosphatase Of Clinical ... • Vitamin C deficiency ... • Pernicious anemia ... /B12 deficiency ... ) - Waddling gait
The Inhibited Pathway caused by N2O, leading to a decrease in the active form of Vitamin
- Vitamin B12 ... a syndrome identical ... B12 deficiency. ... The classic clinical ... of pernicious anemia
Vitamin B12 (Cobalamin) Deficiency
Etiology:
 • Vit B12 - aka cobalamin. Present in foods derived from animal
Vitamin B12 (Cobalamin ... • Common Causes ... intrinsic factor, IF) Clinical ... parasthesias, gait ... #management #nutrition
Myelodysplastic Syndromes (MDS)

What?
Myelodysplastic syndromes are a group of disorders caused by blood cells that are poorly
group of disorders caused ... Platelet Disorders • Nutritional ... : vitamin B12 or ... folic acid deficiency ... treatments • Copper deficiency
Lesions of the Spinal cord - Spinal Cord Syndromes

Spinal cord lesions can result in permanent neurologic
result in permanent neurologic ... Causes of spinal ... , and HIV) - Vitamin ... B12, Copper deficiency ... differential #diagnosis #neurology