Manifestation of a lack, in varying degrees, of some substance (e.g., hormone, enzyme, vitamin) necessary for normal structure and/or function of an organism. Medical Dictionary for the Health Professions and Nursing © Farlex 2012 de·fi·cien·cy symp·tom ...
Introduction: Vitamin B12 deficiency may cause neurological and psychiatric symptoms, especially among elderly patients. Two clinical cases are presented of patients admitted to an Acute Inpatient Psychiatry Unit due to psychotic symptoms, being reported a B12 deficiency. Objectiv...
Administration of cyanocobalamin resulted in significant improvement of eye movements and haematological parameters. Isolated paralysis of upward gaze may be a feature of vitamin B12 deficiency.关键词: rat positron emission tomography (PET cerebral metabolic rate of glucose (CMR(glc focal brain ischemia ...
1.An indication of a disorder or disease, especially a subjective one such as pain, nausea, or weakness. 2.A characteristic sign or indication of the existence of something else:drought and erratic rainfall as symptoms of climate change. ...
2) vitamin K deficiency 维生素K缺乏症 1. Value of CT in diagnosing intracranial hemorrhage due to delayedvitamin K deficiency; CT对晚发性维生素K缺乏症所致颅内出血诊断的价值 2. Objective To studyvitamin K deficiencycombined with cerebral hemorrhage on the reasons of its misdiagnosis, diagnosis, oper...
symptoms in the vitamin C group, and combination vitamin C and zinc group, of 1.2 days (i.e. 5.5 days vs 6.7 days in the standard care group) was greater than the 1.0 day decrease anticipated by the authors in their sample size calculations (i.e. 5.0 days vs 6.0 days for standard ...
Similar considerations apply to rare curable dementias, such as those associated with a deficiency of thyroid hormone or vitamin B12. Traditionally, much time and intellectual effort have been devoted by psychiatrists to distinguishing accurately between schizophrenic and affective psychoses. To some extent...
R. Vitamin D deficiency in patients with myasthenia gravis and improvement of fatigue after supplementation of vitamin D3: a pilot study. Eur. J. Neurol. 19, 1554–1560 (2012). CAS PubMed Google Scholar Abraham, A. & Drory, V. E. Fatigue in motor neuron diseases. Neuromuscul. Disord...
He presumed the cause to be a metabolic disorder related to the tumour cells, the changes being similar to changes seen in animals in pantothenic acid and vitamin E deficiency states. Henson (1953) has described eight such cases with a lower motor neurone atrophic paresis affecting mainly ...
keratomalacia - softening and drying and ulceration of the cornea resulting from vitamin A deficiency; symptom of cystic fibrosis or sprue Kernig's sign - symptom of meningitis; patient cannot extend the leg at the knee when the thigh is flexed because of stiffness in the hamstrings acetonemia...