GI - 7 Vitamin Deficiencies

Question 1

___ controls the formation of coagulation factors

Answer 1

Vitamin K

Question 2

What does Vitamin K do?

Answer 2

Controls coagulation factors

Question 3

___ shows how damaged/diseased the liver is

Answer 3

Prothrombin time

Question 4

Main source of Vit K

Answer 4

Leafy vegetables

Question 5

Most __ deficiency in US is due to alcoholism

Answer 5

thiamine

Question 6

Thiamine deficiency is due to __

Answer 6

alcoholism

Question 7

Thiamine is also known as

Answer 7

Vitamin B1

Question 8

Vitamin B1 is also known as

Answer 8

Thiamine

Question 9

Anorexia, muscle cramps, paresthesias, and irritability are early signs of what deficiency?

Answer 9

Thiamine aka B1

Question 10

What is wet beriberi?

Answer 10

Thiamine advanced deficiency affecting CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM

Question 11

Thiamine advanced deficiency affecting CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM

Answer 11

wet beriberi

Question 12

What is dry beriberi?

Answer 12

Thiamine advanced deficiency affecting NERVOUS SYSTEM

Question 13

What 2 systems are most sensitive to thiamine deficiency?

Answer 13

Cardiovascular system & nervous system

Question 14

Marked peripheral vasodilation and increase in blood volume resulting in high-output heart failure

Answer 14

Wet beriberi

Question 15

Wernicke–Korsakoff syndrome causes what?

Answer 15

Thiamine deficiency - Dry beriberi

Question 16

___ is an acute syndrome
Encephalopathy, oculomotor dysfunction, gait ataxia
Requires emergent treatment to prevent death and neurologic morbidity
If untreated it causes ___

Answer 16

Wernicke’s encephalopathy

If untreated causes Korsakoff’s syndrome

Question 17

___ refers to a chronic neurologic condition that usually occurs as a consequence of WE
Amnesia, confabulation, and impaired learning

Answer 17

Korsakoff’s syndrome

Question 18

If an alcoholic or homeless patient comes in, they just add ___ to their IV bag, assuming they are deficient.

Answer 18

Thiamine (b1)

Question 19

Niacin is a term for:

Answer 19

nicotinic acid

Question 20

Unlike most other vitamins __ can be synthesized from the amino acid ___

Answer 20

Niacine can be synth’d from tryptophan

Question 21

Found in any type of meat, helps make ATP

Answer 21

Niacin

Question 22

___ is used therapeutically for the treatment of hypercholesterolemia and hypertriglyceridemia

Answer 22

Niacin

Question 23

Niacin is also known as

Answer 23

Vitamin B3

Question 24

dermatitis, diarrhea, and dementia is caused by ___ deficiency. What is this called?

Answer 24

**Pellagra – caused by Niacin deficiency

Question 25

Niacin deficiency can be effectively treated with

Answer 25

Nicotinamide

Question 26

Poor, the elderly, and chronic alcoholics
Dietary inadequacy
Chronic illnesses (ie. Ca, chronic renal failure)
Smokers are all at risk for

Answer 26

Vit C deficiency

Question 27

Splinter hemorrhages, bleeding gums

Poor wound healing are details of __ caused by __

Answer 27

Scurvy. Vit C deficiency

Question 28

Which deficiency would cause any bleeding at all?

Answer 28

Vitamin C deficiency

Question 29

___ deficiency common particularly in developing countries.

Answer 29

Vitamin A deficiency

Question 30

Most common cause of night blindness

Answer 30

Vitamin A deficiency

Question 31

Vitamin A causes what?

Answer 31

Night blindness. A! Who turned out the lights! >:Ü

Question 32

In the US vitamin A deficiency is usually due to (2)

Answer 32

fat malabsorption syndromes or mineral oil laxative abuse

Question 33

What is usually caused by fat malabsorption syndromes or mineral oil laxative abuse?

Answer 33

Vitamin A deficiency

Question 34

Night blindness is the earliest symptom.
Dryness of the conjunctiva (xerosis)
Development of small white patches on the conjunctiva (Bitot’s spots) are early manifestations of

Answer 34

Vitamin A deficiency

Question 35

___ deficiency decreases the intestinal absorption of calcium and is the most common cause of osteomalacia.

Answer 35

Vitamin D

Question 36

____ – dependent ___ is caused by a rare autosomal recessive defect in renal synthesis of 1,25(OH)2D

Answer 36

Vitamin D–dependent rickets type I

Question 37

Tx for both types of Vitamin D–dependent rickets is

Answer 37

Oral calcitriol

Question 38

It seems like the treatment for any vitamin deficiency is:

Answer 38

Give them some of that vitamin.

Question 39

Oral calcium comes in what forms? (2)

Answer 39

calcium citrate or calcium carbonate