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Scurvy in liver transplant patients
Héloïse Hatuel1, Marc Buffet, Christine Mateus
1Department of Dermatology, Cochin Hospital APHP, Faculty of Medicine Paris 5, University of René Descartes, Paris, France.
Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology
|June 20, 2006
Abstract:
We report on scurvy in 3 liver transplant recipients. Clinical presentation was limited to ecchymotic purpura and mild follicular keratosis with no mucosal involvement. Skin biopsies suggest vitamin C deficiency, which was confirmed by a low level of vitamin C in both sera and leukocyte specimens. Skin lesions dramatically improved within a few weeks after supplementation with ascorbic acid.

