METABOLIC DISEASES

Question 1

what are the metabolic diseases, name the vitamin deficiencies?

Answer 1

Thiamine Deficiency (B1 Deficiency)

Cobalamin (Vitamin B12) Deficiency

Question 2

causes wet and dry beriberi, what vitamin deficiency?

Answer 2

Thiamine Deficiency (B1 Deficiency) –

Question 3

can cause anemia and severe/irreversible CNS effects, what vitamin deficiency?

Answer 3

Cobalamin (Vitamin B12) Deficiency

Question 4

Wernicke-Korsakoff Syndrome – include 2 syndromes

Answer 4

Wernicke Encephalopathy

Korsakoff Syndrome

Question 5

what is this Wernicke encephalopathy Korsakoff syndrome?

Nystagmus
Ataxia
Mental confusion

Answer 5

Wernicke Encephalopathy

Question 6

what is this Wernicke encephalopathy Korsakoff syndrome?

Amnesia with confabulation

Answer 6

Korsakoff Syndrome

Question 7

Treatment of Thiamine Deficiency/WKS?

Answer 7

Thiamine administration – very effective

Question 8

Cobalamin (Vitamin B12) Deficiency seen in?

Answer 8

(alcoholics)

Question 9

major morphology of the CNS lesion?

Answer 9

Demyelination of dorsal/lateral tracts of spinal cord

Question 10

Clinical signs of Cobalamin (Vitamin B12) Deficiency?

Answer 10

peripheral neuropathy
dementia
megaloblastic madness