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Vitamin deficiency:
Night blindness; dry skin; impaired immune response; squamous metaplasia of trachea and hair follicles |
Vitamin A
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Vitamin deficiency (and Dx):
polyneuritis, high-output cardiac failure, dilated cardiomyopathy, and edema MCC of deficiency? |
B1 - Thiamine
(Wet beri-beri) MCC - alcoholism |
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Vitamin deficiency:
Cheilosis, angular stomatitis, Corneal vascularization, glossitis, seborrheic dermatitis |
Vit B2 - Riboflavin
(2 C's) |
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Vitamin deficiency (and Dx):
diarrhea, dermatitis, dementia, beefy glossitis |
Vit B3 - Niacin
(Pellagra) |
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Vitamin deficiency:
Dermititis, enteritis, alopecia, adrenal insufficiency |
B5 - Pantothenate
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Vitamin deficiency:
Convulsions, hyperirritibility, glossitis, peripheral neuropathy, sideroblastic anemia w/ ringed sideroblasts |
Vit B6 - Pyridoxine
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Nutrient deficiency:
Dermatitis, enteritis cause? what is its use? |
Biotin
(from Avidin in raw eggs or antibiotics) Use: Carboxylation rxns |
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Vitamin deficiency:
megaloblastic anemia |
Folic acid
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Vitamin deficiency:
anemia, optic neuropathy, subacute combined degeneration, paresthesia, glossitis MMC of deficiency? What test for Dx confirmation? |
B12 - Cobalamin
MMC - pernicious anemia (also fish tapeworm) Shilling's test |
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Vitamin deficiency (and Dx):
swollen gums, bruising, anemia, poor wound healing, perifollicular hemorrhage what NT is it a cofactor for? |
Vitamin C - Ascorbic Acid
(Scurvy) cofactor for NE |
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Vitamin deficiency:
Bending bones, soft bones, hypocalcemic tetany What other effect is seen only in kids? What is the most common cause of the deficiency? |
Vitamin D
kids - soft spots in skull MCC - chronic renal failure |
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Vitamin deficiency:
Neonatal hemorrhage, increased PT, increased PTT, normal bleed time How is it made? Most common cause of deficiency? |
Vitamin K
made by colonic bacteria MCC - broad spectrum Ab in hospital |
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Nutrient deficiency:
Poor wound healing, dissecting aortic anuerysm, skin depigmentation |
Copper
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Nutrient deficiency:
rash; dysgeusia; growth retardation; poor wound healing; hypogonadism, decreased adult hair |
Zinc
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Vitamin deficiency (and Dx):
polyneuritis, muscle wasting, demyelination syndromes, distal sensorimotor neuropathy |
Vitamin B1 - Thiamine
(Dry beri beri) |
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Dx:
retarded growth and loss of muscle and sub-q fat; "wasting away" |
Marasmus
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Dx:
retarded growth and loss of muscule but retained sub-q fat, fatty liver, severe edema, anemia |
Kwashiorkor
[MEAL = Malabsorption, Edema, Anemia, Liver fat] |
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vitamin required for Transamination reactions
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Pyridoxine
(Vit B-6) |
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(3)* causes of Pellagra
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HIC:
Hartnup Dz (low Tryptophan); INH (low Vit B-6); Carcinoid syndrome (high Tryptophan metabolism) |
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what NT and vitamin is Niacin derived from?
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Tryptophan
Vit B6 |
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Dx:
Alopecia, fatigue, HA, hepatocellular damage, sore throat, skin changes |
Vit A toxicity
(Retinol) |
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Vitamin deficiency:
increased fragility of RBC |
Vitamin E
[E = Erythrocytes] |
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Dx:
hypercalciuria, nephrocalcinosis, renal calculi (in children: growth retardation) |
Excess Vitamin D
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