(n.) An acute disease occurring in India, characterized by multiple inflammatory changes in the nerves, producing great muscular debility, a painful rigidity of the limbs, and cachexy.
Example Sentences:
(1) Beriberi heart disease should be considered in all patients with cardiac failure and a history of alcohol abuse or dietary deficiency.
(2) Shoshin beriberi - a fulminant form of cardiovascular beriberi - and severe hyponatraemia were observed concomitantly in a heavy beer drinker.
(3) The cardiogenic shock and pulmonary edema due to cardiac beriberi may have triggered the ARDS.
(4) We report a patient with beriberi presenting unusually with severe right-sided cardiac failure, with documented impairment of right ventricular function, which improved with thiamine replacement.
(5) The authors report a case of beriberi due to a deficit in thiamine, which became apparent in a young Chinese woman with polyneuropathy, distal oedema and epigastralgia.
(6) Wet beriberi is a result of thiamine deficiency and is uncommon in Europe and North America except in association with chronic alcohol abuse.
(7) The presentation of beriberi heart disease in developed countries is discussed.
(8) Of 3 alcoholic patients with severe lactic acidosis, one had shoshin beriberi; the second--a beer drinker--presented with convulsions associated with hyponatraemia and complicated by rhabdomyolysis and was not thiamine-deficient; the third patient had convulsions associated with Korsakoff's syndrome and was thiamine-deficient.
(9) Throughout 1989, 96 patients were diagnosed as having alcohol-related cardiomyopathy and 12 of these had beriberi.
(10) Dysautonomic symptoms observed are compared with those seen in classical beriberi, the nutritional prototype for dysautonomia, and changes in blood pressure are described which support this premise.
(11) A patient with fulminant Shoshin-type beriberi was studied in the acute phase and found to have severe metabolic acidosis, high output biventricular failure, and markedly low systemic vascular resistance.
(12) A prompt symptomatic response to intravenous thiamine suggests that the patient had the chronic form of dry beriberi.
(13) No confusion between acute intoxication and alcoholic ketoacidosis, alcohol induced fasting hypoglycemia or shoshin beriberi must be made.
(14) "Shoshin beriberi" cardiac failure has a different presentation, with vasoconstriction, hypotension and severe metabolic acidosis.
(15) On the basis of these findings, the diagnosis of beriberi heart was made.
(16) Cardiovascular beriberi has a high mortality when untreated.
(17) Four cases of beriberi were diagnosed on clinical grounds and 3 were confirmed biochemically.
(18) She developed hyponatremia and beriberi heart disease, which resulted in metabolic acidosis and cardiogenic shock (shoshin beriberi).
(19) Acute beriberi is a well-documented syndrome which usually occurs in nutritionally compromised individuals outside the hospital setting who lack thiamine in their diet.
(20) On the basis of the frequent occurrence of alcoholism it seems likely, that several similar beriberi cases could be found nowadays.
Malnutrition
Definition:
(n.) Faulty or imperfect nutrition.
Example Sentences:
(1) Patients were selected for the severity of their malnutrition and for absence of other diseases.
(2) The overall prevalence of protein energy malnutrition (PEM) was found to be 81.8%, while 31.8, 44.1, 5.7 and 0.2% of children had Grades I, II, III and IV PEM, respectively.
(3) Malnutrition and dehydration are the immediate consequences of diarrheal diseases.
(4) According to perimeter of leg, 13% of these girl students might he considered affected of second degree malnutrition, this situation prevailed from 13 to 18 years of age, but was not true in the 12--year--old group.
(5) The interaction between malnutrition and exposure to a mucosal damaging agent, difluoromethylornithine (DFMO), was examined by monitoring the small-intestinal changes in weanling rats.
(6) The number of splenic anti-TNP direct plaque-forming cells (PFCs) was decreased by malnutrition when expressed on a per spleen basis.
(7) Malnutrition results from deficiency in one or more of these basic nutrients.
(8) It is concluded that malnutrition is a strong predictor of ALRI-related death in the pre-school child.
(9) The conclusions were: the percentage of patients with malnutrition prior to surgery is large enough to justify a routine PRNA; TPN decreases morbidity and mortality in patients with previous good nutritional state but not in those with malnutrition; undernourished patients have a very high rate of complications and surgery should be delayed until a acceptable state of nutrition is achieved.
(10) Anergy is a crude measure of host resistance which may be due to malnutrition, but is probably more often due to inappropriate host responses to surgery and injury.
(11) There are a number of observations which suggest that malnutrition and decreasing pulmonary function are parallel phenomena in chronic lung disease.
(12) It may be that the low severity of the disease in India, juxtaposed against the high mortality rates in parts of Africa, may be due to the relative prevalence of marasmic and kwashiorkor types of malnutrition in these particular geographic areas.
(13) The hypochromia of protein-calorie malnutrition was not included in the study, but its importance in relation to coincident tuberculosis is noted.
(14) 4) this report is the 1st to document virus particles in fecal specimens from Indonesian children, and suggests that viruses may be important etiological agents in diarrheal diseases in Indonesia, where malnutrition and diarrhea are important health problems.
(15) Malnutrition might contribute to the development of the diseases, which were improved by anti-tuberculosis therapy and hyperalimentation therapy.
(16) The effects of perinatal malnutrition on behavioural development and adult shuttle-box avoidance performance were studied in Swiss white mice.
(17) Hypocalcemia in seven patients (41%) had a multifactorial basis: hyperphosphaturia, septicaemia, malnutrition and cytotoxic drugs were among the probable causes.
(18) A severe state of protein-energy malnutrition was induced by litter expansion which caused the mean total body weight of experimentally malnourished rats to diminish significantly as compared to control animals.
(19) Eleven infants recovering from protein-calorie malnutrition secondary to acquired monosaccharide intolerance were found to have reduced plasma bicarbonate concentration associated with inadequate weight gain.
(20) Cancer patients have the highest incidence of protein-calorie malnutrition seen in hospitalized patients, with significant malnutrition occurring in more than 30% of cancer patients undergoing major upper gastrointestinal procedures.