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Revista Médica Sinergia 2019; 4 (05)

The importance of pellagra in the differential

Rojas CS, Cárdenas QMF

Language: Spanish
References: 24
Page: 111-116
PDF size: 380.69 Kb.


ABSTRACT

Pellagra is the name of a condition resulting from the vitamin B3 or Niacin deficiency, a potential deathly desease which is characterized by a classic triad of Diarrhea, Dermatitis, and Delirium, which is associated with risk factors such as malnutrition, poverty, intake of certain drugs, metabolic disturbances, among others. Pellagra’s diagnosis can be made on clinical grounds alone, but it’s hardly in the clinicians differential for hospitalized patients or in the emergency department; this is of great importance due the mortality that represents a late diagnosis.


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