Combination of Pyridoxine and Thiamine Treatment in Bilateral Induced Ptosis in a Child: Case Report and Review of Literature

Ptosis is a rare side effect of vincristine chemotherapy in patients treated for cancer. We report a case of a child with common B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia who developed bilateral moderate ptosis following the chemotherapy protocol of the United Kingdom Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia (ALL) re...

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Autores principales: Chai, Khai-Siang, Norsarwany, Mohamad, Shatriah, Ismail
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2017
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Pediatrics
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5642819/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29057185
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.1573
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description Ptosis is a rare side effect of vincristine chemotherapy in patients treated for cancer. We report a case of a child with common B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia who developed bilateral moderate ptosis following the chemotherapy protocol of the United Kingdom Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia (ALL) regimen A. The patient showed dramatic clinical improvement after a combination of oral pyridoxine and thiamine treatment. We provide a literature review of this uncommon presentation.
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spelling pubmed-56428192017-10-22 Combination of Pyridoxine and Thiamine Treatment in Bilateral Induced Ptosis in a Child: Case Report and Review of Literature Chai, Khai-Siang Norsarwany, Mohamad Shatriah, Ismail Cureus Pediatrics Ptosis is a rare side effect of vincristine chemotherapy in patients treated for cancer. We report a case of a child with common B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia who developed bilateral moderate ptosis following the chemotherapy protocol of the United Kingdom Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia (ALL) regimen A. The patient showed dramatic clinical improvement after a combination of oral pyridoxine and thiamine treatment. We provide a literature review of this uncommon presentation. Cureus 2017-08-16 /pmc/articles/PMC5642819/ /pubmed/29057185 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.1573 Text en Copyright © 2017, Chai et al. http://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.
spellingShingle Pediatrics
Chai, Khai-Siang
Norsarwany, Mohamad
Shatriah, Ismail
Combination of Pyridoxine and Thiamine Treatment in Bilateral Induced Ptosis in a Child: Case Report and Review of Literature
title Combination of Pyridoxine and Thiamine Treatment in Bilateral Induced Ptosis in a Child: Case Report and Review of Literature
title_full Combination of Pyridoxine and Thiamine Treatment in Bilateral Induced Ptosis in a Child: Case Report and Review of Literature
title_fullStr Combination of Pyridoxine and Thiamine Treatment in Bilateral Induced Ptosis in a Child: Case Report and Review of Literature
title_full_unstemmed Combination of Pyridoxine and Thiamine Treatment in Bilateral Induced Ptosis in a Child: Case Report and Review of Literature
title_short Combination of Pyridoxine and Thiamine Treatment in Bilateral Induced Ptosis in a Child: Case Report and Review of Literature
title_sort combination of pyridoxine and thiamine treatment in bilateral induced ptosis in a child: case report and review of literature
topic Pediatrics
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5642819/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29057185
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.1573
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