Antibodies to Herpesvirus hominis (HVH) types 1 and 2 were determined by a micro-neutralisation method in 37 children with kwashiorkor, 16 with marasmus, and in 64 well-nourished control children. All the children were aged between 1 and 4 years. The prevalence of antibodies was similar in the two sexes and at different ages. HVH-1 antibodies were present in 51% of children with kwashiorkor, in...

Two infants with a florid erythematous rash and generalised oedema, hypoalbuminaemia, and anaemia were found to have cystic fibrosis. This rare presentation is associated with false negative sweat tests, delays in diagnosis, and a considerable mortality. It is proposed that this presentation represents a manifestation of kwashiorkor secondary to malabsorption. The recognition that these infants...

Kwashiorkor is a form of protein-energy malnutrition with a characteristic flaky paint dermatosis. Patients with kwashiorkor may have a low serum level of zinc. However, most patients fail to show the typical cutaneous manifestation of zinc deficiency, namely, acrodermatitis enteropathica. We herein reported a patient with concurrent kwashiorkor and acquired acrodermatitis enteropathica. This 2...

Although the literature of kwashiorkor is now reaching large dimensions, few studies of the serum chemistry have so far appeared. The published results are difficult to summarize. There has been up to now no general agreement on diagnostic criteria, and the name kwashiorkor or one of its synonyms has undoubtedly been applied to diverse conditions arising from various causes in different parts o...

The 'tissue paper' intestine of patients with severe kwashiorkor is well known to tropical pathologists and it is usually considered to involve all coats of the intestinal wall. However, histological study of the small gut mucosa in man has been very difficult until the advent of peroral biopsy (Shiner, 1956). This paper reports a series of 17 infants with kwashiorkor whose jejunal mucosa was s...

Casuarina NT 0811 AUSTRAUA The dual sugar test of intestinal permeability is a reliable non-invasive way of assessing the ~nse of the small intestinal mucosa to nutritional rehabilitation. Our aim was to compare a local mix of maize soya-egg to the standard milk diet in the mannent of kwashiorkor. . The diets were alternated three monthly in the sequence milk-maize-milk. There' were a toW' of 5...

Protein energy malnutrition is associated with cerebral atrophy which may be detrimental to intellectual development. The aim of this study was to document the anatomical abnormalities which lead to the appearance of cerebral atrophy using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) in the acute stage of kwashiorkor and to monitor changes during nutritional rehabilitation. Twelve children aged 6 to 37 mon...