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Psychosis and Seizures Attributed to Severe Vitamin B12 Deficiency: A Case Report

Vitamin B12 deficiency is known to cause a variety of symptoms, including megaloblastic anemia, glossitis, and neuropsychiatric disorders. This case report describes a patient who presented with cognitive decline, psychosis, and seizures due to a severe vitamin B12 deficiency. Following treatment wi...

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Autores principales: Portillo, Shellsea, Guevara, Nehemias A, Francis-Morel, Garry
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10315186/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37404443
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.39889
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description Vitamin B12 deficiency is known to cause a variety of symptoms, including megaloblastic anemia, glossitis, and neuropsychiatric disorders. This case report describes a patient who presented with cognitive decline, psychosis, and seizures due to a severe vitamin B12 deficiency. Following treatment with vitamin supplementation therapy, the patient's condition significantly improved. The literature has also documented similar neuropsychiatric manifestations of vitamin B12 deficiency, highlighting the potential for symptom reversal with prompt and appropriate treatment. Therefore, early diagnosis and treatment of vitamin B12 deficiency are critical to preventing potentially irreversible neurological damage.
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spelling pubmed-103151862023-07-03 Psychosis and Seizures Attributed to Severe Vitamin B12 Deficiency: A Case Report Portillo, Shellsea Guevara, Nehemias A Francis-Morel, Garry Cureus Internal Medicine Vitamin B12 deficiency is known to cause a variety of symptoms, including megaloblastic anemia, glossitis, and neuropsychiatric disorders. This case report describes a patient who presented with cognitive decline, psychosis, and seizures due to a severe vitamin B12 deficiency. Following treatment with vitamin supplementation therapy, the patient's condition significantly improved. The literature has also documented similar neuropsychiatric manifestations of vitamin B12 deficiency, highlighting the potential for symptom reversal with prompt and appropriate treatment. Therefore, early diagnosis and treatment of vitamin B12 deficiency are critical to preventing potentially irreversible neurological damage. Cureus 2023-06-02 /pmc/articles/PMC10315186/ /pubmed/37404443 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.39889 Text en Copyright © 2023, Portillo et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Psychosis and Seizures Attributed to Severe Vitamin B12 Deficiency: A Case Report
title Psychosis and Seizures Attributed to Severe Vitamin B12 Deficiency: A Case Report
title_full Psychosis and Seizures Attributed to Severe Vitamin B12 Deficiency: A Case Report
title_fullStr Psychosis and Seizures Attributed to Severe Vitamin B12 Deficiency: A Case Report
title_full_unstemmed Psychosis and Seizures Attributed to Severe Vitamin B12 Deficiency: A Case Report
title_short Psychosis and Seizures Attributed to Severe Vitamin B12 Deficiency: A Case Report
title_sort psychosis and seizures attributed to severe vitamin b12 deficiency: a case report
topic Internal Medicine
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10315186/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37404443
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