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Abbiategrasso Brain Bank Protocol for Collecting, Processing and Characterizing Aging Brains
Published on: June 3, 2020
[Sometimes they come back! A case of Shoshin Beriberi in Northern Italy (2012)]
Abstract:
A 78-year-old man presented to the emergency department with symptoms and signs suggestive of heart failure. Only after a long interview we discovered that the patient has been eating, for over 20 years, only chestnut honey and chestnut jam produced by himself. He refused any other foods, because of the fear of being poisoned; he did not drink alcohol at all. The clinical picture was attributable to Beriberi, and the patient recovered promptly after treatment with thiamine. A high clinical suspicion and an early thiamine supplementation might shorten the duration of work-up and hospital length of stay, as well as prevent extensive and expensive diagnostic work-up, thus simplifying the clinical management.
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