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- Title
Cardiac beriberi: two modes of presentation.
- Authors
McIntyre, N; Stanley, N N
- Abstract
Two patients suffering from cardiovascular beriberi presented with different clinical manifestations. One had the classical features of a high cardiac output with raised jugular venous pressure and gross oedema. The other was in fulminating heart failure with clinical evidence of a low cardiac output but no peripheral oedema. The latter type of beriberi (shoshin) is rare. Cardiovascular beriberi has a high mortality when untreated. Both patients responded dramatically to thiamine, and this emphasizes the importance of considering thiamine deficiency as a cause of heart failure even when the cardiac output is low.
- Publication
British medical journal, 1971, Vol 3, Issue 5774, p567
- ISSN
0007-1447
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1136/bmj.3.5774.567