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- Title
Acquired acrodermatitis enteropathica due to zinc‐depleted parenteral nutrition.
- Authors
Wiznia, Lauren E.; Bhansali, Suneet; Brinster, Nooshin; Al‐Qaqaa, Yasir M.; Orlow, Seth J.; Oza, Vikash
- Abstract
Well‐known causes of zinc deficiency, also referred to as acrodermatitis enteropathica (AE), include defects in intestinal zinc transporters and inadequate intake, but a rare cause of acquired zinc deficiency discussed here is an iatrogenic nutritional deficiency caused by parenteral nutrition administered without trace elements. While zinc‐depleted parenteral nutrition causing dermatosis of acquired zinc deficiency was first reported in the 1990s, it is now again relevant due to a national vitamin and trace element shortage. A high index of suspicion may be necessary to diagnose zinc deficiency, particularly because early clinical findings are nonspecific. We present this case of acquired zinc deficiency in a patient admitted to a pediatric intensive care unit for respiratory distress and atypical pneumonia, who subsequently developed a severe bullous eruption due to iatrogenic zinc deficiency but was treated effectively with enteral and parenteral zinc supplementation, allowing for rapid re‐epithelialization of previously denuded skin.
- Subjects
SHORT bowel syndrome; PARENTERAL feeding; ZINC transporters; PEDIATRIC intensive care; INTENSIVE care units; MALNUTRITION
- Publication
Pediatric Dermatology, 2019, Vol 36, Issue 4, p520
- ISSN
0736-8046
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/pde.13865