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Acute pellagra in a child under treatment with isoniazid.
Toxic manifestations during isoniazid therapy are encountered in less than 5% of cases treated, and we have been able to trace little mention of them in children in the literature. The drug is now widely used in the treatment of tuberculosis and is universally prescribed as an adjuvant to streptomycin in tuberculous meningitis. The following case report concerns a child who developed pellagra l...
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Pellagra is a forgotten disease, particularly in developed countries. It is a nutritional disorder characterized by 4 “Ds”: diarrhea, dermatitis, dementia, and death. Causes of pellagra are chronic alcoholism, inadequate diet, malabsorption, metabolic derangement and drugs. Half-and-half nail is an occasional but specific clinical finding in chronic renal failure. We report a case of Isoniazid-...
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Eight cases of pellagra, diagnosed on the grounds of neuropathological findings and retrospective study of clinical data, were found among 106 necropsy cases of tuberculosis. Although these eight patients had shown various mental, neurological and gastrointestinal symptoms, as well as skin lesions, the diagnosis of pellagra had not been made clinically. In all the patients, pellagra symptoms ap...
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Pellagra is a disease with a considerable historical background. It was mentioned first in the seventeenth century as occurring in Spain and in 1735 it was described accurately by Gasper Casal. His book was not, however, published until 1762. Figure 1 is a reproduction from this book (Major, 1932). Meanwhile M. Thiery described the disease in the Journal de Medecine, Chirurgiv et Pharmacie (Par...
متن کاملPellagra.
Pellagra was first described in the 18th century as an epidemic in the poverty-stricken Spanish countryside by Gaspar Casal. Pellagra did not appear in the United States until the turn of the 20th century. It then ravaged the Southern United States and was not eliminated until the 1940s. This short report will redact the descriptions of pellagra in two early textbooks of dermatology. The first,...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Proceedings of the Royal Society of Medicine
سال: 1976
ISSN: 0035-9157
DOI: 10.1177/003591577606900432