Riboflavin Deficiency Caused by Treatment with Adriamycin.

Betaine for treatment of homocystinuria caused by methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase deficiency.

A 24 day old girl with homocystinuria and hypomethioninaemia caused by methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase deficiency presented with rapidly progressing encephalopathy and myopathy. An almost complete recovery was achieved by treatment with betaine.

Regulation of riboflavin-metabolizing enzymes in riboflavin deficiency.

FASS, STEVEN, AND RICHARD S. RIVLIN. Regulation of riboflavinmetabolizing enzymes in ribuj?auin de_ficiency. Am, J. Physiol. 217(4) : 988-99 1. 1969.-The effects of riboflavin deficiency in rats on the hepatic activities of flavokinase, FAD pyrophosphorylase, and FMN phosphatase, three enzymes involved in riboflavin metabolism, have been measured and compared to the hepatic concentrations of FA...

Encephalopathy caused by thiamine deficiency.

513 July 2015, Vol. 105, No. 7 Encephalopathy caused by thiamine deficiency To the Editor: Antel et al.[1] have drawn attention to the acute encephalopathy caused by thiamine deficiency in non-alcohol-related settings. I would like to highlight a different clinical presentation that ought to be readily recognised as a possible manifestation of this deficiency, namely rapidly progressive leg wea...

Treatable childhood neuronopathy caused by mutations in riboflavin transporter RFVT2

Childhood onset motor neuron diseases or neuronopathies are a clinically heterogeneous group of disorders. A particularly severe subgroup first described in 1894, and subsequently called Brown-Vialetto-Van Laere syndrome, is characterized by progressive pontobulbar palsy, sensorineural hearing loss and respiratory insufficiency. There has been no treatment for this progressive neurodegenerative...

Treatment with Bacteriophages of Experimentally-Infected Mice Caused by Antibiotic-Resistant Pseudomonas Aerugi-nosa