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Dry beriberi: unusual complication of prolonged parenteral nutrition
J Zak1, D Burns, T Lingenfelser
1Gastrointestinal Clinic, Groote Schuur Hospital, Observatory, Republic of South Africa.
JPEN. Journal of Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition
|March 1, 1991
Abstract:
An adult with Crohn's disease on home total parenteral nutrition (TPN) for 8 months presented with peripheral neuropathy and ataxia. The patient was found to be deficient of thiamine. A prompt symptomatic response to intravenous thiamine suggests that the patient had the chronic form of dry beriberi. To our knowledge, this variety of beriberi in a patient on TPN has not previously been reported.