An apple a day keeps the doctor away: pediatric scurvy case report and mini review.

Autor: Bitonti TM; The Ottawa Hospital, Ottawa, ON, Canada., Tu A; Division of Neurosurgery, Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario, Ottawa, ON, Canada. albert.d.tu@gmail.com.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Child's nervous system : ChNS : official journal of the International Society for Pediatric Neurosurgery [Childs Nerv Syst] 2024 Sep; Vol. 40 (9), pp. 2941-2945. Date of Electronic Publication: 2024 May 16.
DOI: 10.1007/s00381-024-06454-0
Abstrakt: Scurvy is a rare nutritional disorder caused by deficiency of ascorbic acid (vitamin C). It is often under-diagnosed in clinical settings, especially in North America where population statistics are unavailable. However, scurvy is more common than previously thought and appears to be re-emerging in children with developmental delays. Here, we review the pertinent literature and present a case of a previously healthy, 5-year-old, non-verbal boy who presented with multiple, acute, and subacute spontaneous epidural hemorrhages managed by neurosurgical intervention. He remained in hospital for 17 days and was seen in follow-up 3 weeks post-operatively having returned to his neurological baseline. Our case suggests the importance of considering scurvy in patients who have developmental delays and poor nutritional status.
(© 2024. The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany, part of Springer Nature.)
Databáze: MEDLINE
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