Missing Vitamin C: A Case of Scorbutic Cardiac Tamponade

Scurvy is a disorder of vitamin C deficiency which leads to vascular fragility and multisystemic complications. The paper presents a case of scurvy resulting in cardiac tamponade in addition to its classic manifestations. Life-threatening tamponade is an extreme presentation of scurvy and has not be...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores principales: Alnaimat, Saed, Oseni, Abdullahi, Yang, Ying, Melvani, Vinesh, Aronson, Adam, Harris, Katherine, Panaich, Sidakpal
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2019
Materias:
Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8301525/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34316783
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jaccas.2019.07.006
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Sumario:Scurvy is a disorder of vitamin C deficiency which leads to vascular fragility and multisystemic complications. The paper presents a case of scurvy resulting in cardiac tamponade in addition to its classic manifestations. Life-threatening tamponade is an extreme presentation of scurvy and has not been reported in modern publications to the best of the present authors’ knowledge. (Level of Difficulty: Beginner.)

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