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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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
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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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author Alnaimat, Saed
Oseni, Abdullahi
Yang, Ying
Melvani, Vinesh
Aronson, Adam
Harris, Katherine
Panaich, Sidakpal
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description 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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spelling pubmed-83015252021-07-26 Missing Vitamin C: A Case of Scorbutic Cardiac Tamponade Alnaimat, Saed Oseni, Abdullahi Yang, Ying Melvani, Vinesh Aronson, Adam Harris, Katherine Panaich, Sidakpal JACC Case Rep Case Report 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.) Elsevier 2019-08-21 /pmc/articles/PMC8301525/ /pubmed/34316783 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jaccas.2019.07.006 Text en https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
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Missing Vitamin C: A Case of Scorbutic Cardiac Tamponade
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8301525/
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