Missing Vitamin C
oleh: Saed Alnaimat, MD, Abdullahi Oseni, MD, Ying Yang, MD, Vinesh Melvani, MD, Adam Aronson, MD, Katherine Harris, MD, Sidakpal Panaich, MD
| Format: | Article |
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| Diterbitkan: | Elsevier 2019-08-01 |
Deskripsi
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.)