Ferreira, Carolina and Belfort, Deborah and Neto, Paulo and Gouveia, Pedro (2020) Reversible Pulmonary Hypertension Secondary to Scurvy in a Patient with a Psychiatric Disorder: a Case Report and Literature Review. European Journal of Case Reports in Internal Medicine, 7 (2). ISSN 2284-2594
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Abstract
Pulmonary hypertension (PH) can be related to several diseases, such as connective tissue disorders and pulmonary embolism, or to drugs; it may also be idiopathic. Few cases have been reported demonstrating an association between ascorbic acid deficiency and reversible PH. We report the case of a patient who arrived at the emergency department with dyspnoea, tachycardia and lower limb perifollicular haemorrhage. Examinations, including a transthoracic echocardiogram, revealed enlarged right chambers and an estimated pulmonary artery systolic pressure of 61 mmHg. Further evaluation revealed poor food intake due to paranoid personality disorder, leading to ascorbic acid deficiency and manifestations of scurvy.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Ascorbic acid deficiency, scurvy, pulmonary hypertension |
| Subjects: | 600 Tecnologia - Scienze applicate > 610 Medicina e salute (Classificare qui la tecnologia dei servizi medici) > 616 Malattie (classificare qui la Clinica medica, la medicina basata sull'evidenza, la Medicina interna, la Medicina sperimentale) |
| Depositing User: | Chiara D'Arpa |
| Date Deposited: | 19 Nov 2020 09:54 |
| Last Modified: | 19 Nov 2020 09:54 |
| URI: | http://eprints.bice.rm.cnr.it/id/eprint/19797 |
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