Missing Vitamin C

Saed Alnaimat, MD; Abdullahi Oseni, MD; Ying Yang, MD; Vinesh Melvani, MD; Adam Aronson, MD; Katherine Harris, MD; Sidakpal Panaich, MD

JACC: Case Reports (Aug 2019)

Missing Vitamin C

Saed Alnaimat, MD,
Abdullahi Oseni, MD,
Ying Yang, MD,
Vinesh Melvani, MD,
Adam Aronson, MD,
Katherine Harris, MD,
Sidakpal Panaich, MD

Affiliations

Saed Alnaimat, MD: Department of Internal Medicine, University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, Iowa City, Iowa; Address for correspondence: Dr. Saed Alnaimat, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Iowa, 200 Hawkins Drive, SE 612 GH, Iowa City, Iowa 52242.
Abdullahi Oseni, MD: Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, Iowa City, Iowa
Ying Yang, MD: Department of Internal Medicine, University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, Iowa City, Iowa
Vinesh Melvani, MD: Department of Dermatology, University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, Iowa City, Iowa
Adam Aronson, MD: Department of Dermatology, University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, Iowa City, Iowa
Katherine Harris, MD: Department of Internal Medicine, University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, Iowa City, Iowa
Sidakpal Panaich, MD: Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, Iowa City, Iowa

Journal volume & issue: Vol. 1, no. 2
pp. 192 – 196

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Scurvy is a disorder of vitamin C deficiency which leads to vascular fragility and multisystemic complications. The paper presents a case of scurvy resulting in cardiac tamponade in addition to its classic manifestations. Life-threatening tamponade is an extreme presentation of scurvy and has not been reported in modern publications to the best of the present authors’ knowledge. (Level of Difficulty: Beginner.)

Published in JACC: Case Reports

ISSN: 2666-0849 (Online)
Publisher: Elsevier
Country of publisher: United States
LCC subjects: Medicine: Internal medicine: Specialties of internal medicine: Diseases of the circulatory (Cardiovascular) system
Website: https://www.journals.elsevier.com/jacc-case-reports

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