Vitamins and Minerals Flashcards
Physiologically most important Vitamin A metabolite
Retinoic acid
Most characteristic and specific signs of vit A deficiency are
Eye lesions
Vit A deficiency: Caused by absence of retinal pigment rhodopsin
Night blindness
Vit A deficiency: Dry, scaly layer of cells in the cornea
Xerophthalmia
Vit A deficiency: Characeristic lesion
Xerophthalmia
Vit A deficiency: Development of plaques after the conjunctiva keratinizes
Bitot spots
Vitamin B1
Thiamine
Vitamin B2
Riboflavin
Vitamin B3
Niacin
Vitamin B6
Pyridoxine
Vitamin B12
Cobalamin
Vitamin that serves as cofactor for several enzymes in CARBOHYDRATE metab
B1
Vitamin that is part of the structure of coenzymes that participate in REDOX reactions and energy production via the mitochondrial respiratory chain
B2
Vitamin that forms part of 2 cofactors, NAD and NADP in the respiratory chain, FATTY ACID, and STEROID synthesis, cell diff, and DNA processing
B3
Vitamin that functions as coenzymes in AMINO ACID metab and steroid action
B6
Vitamin that serves as cofactor for isomerization of methylmalonyl Co-A to succinyl CoA
B12
Vitamin that is important for synthesis of collagen at the level of hydroxylation of lysine and proline in precollagen
Vitamin C
Vitamin that is required for the synthesis of GABA and Ach for nerve conduction
B1
Vitamin that can be synthesized from tryptophan in the diet
B3
Vitamin that is almost exclusively from animal foods
B12
Vitamin deficiency: Associated with diet consisting of polished rice
B1 (oriental beriberi)
Vitamin deficiency: Peripheral neuritis, decreased DTRs, loss of vibration sense, tenderness and cramping of leg musculature, CHF, psychic distrubances
B1 (beriberi)
Vitamin deficiency: Wernicke enceph
B1 (beriberi: mental status changes, ocular signs, ataxia)
Vitamin deficiency: Angular cheilosis in a malnourished child
B2
Vitamin deficiency: Glossitis, keratitis, conjunctivitis, photophobia, lacrimation, corneal vasculatization, seb derm
B2
Vitamin deficiency: Pellagra
B3
Vitamin deficiency: Occurs in population where corn is the major foodstuff
B3 (Pellagra)
Vitamin deficiency: Glycine metab can lead to oxaluria
B6
Vitamin deficiency: Risk increased in persons taking INH, penicillamine, steroids, and anticonvulsants
B6 (vitamin B6 inhibitors)
Vitamin deficiency: Strict vegetarian or vegan diets
B12
Vitamin deficiency: Pernicious anemia due to intrinsic factor deficiency
B12
Vitamin deficiency: Scurvy
Vitamin C
Vitamin deficiency: Leg swelling and pseudoparalysis, subperiosteal hemorrhages in the lower limb bones
Vitamin C
Vitamin deficiency: Rickets
Vitamin D
Vitamin deficiency: Craniotabes
Vitamin D
Vitamin deficiency: Hemolysis and neurologic manifestations
Vitamin E
Vitamin deficiency: Low erythrocyte transketolase activity (ETKA) and high thiamine pyrophosphate effect (TTPE)
B1
Vitamin deficiency: Dermatitis, diarrhea, dementia, death, photosensitivity
B3 (classic pellagra triad: dermatitis, diarrhea, dementia)
Vitamin deficiency: Peripheral neuritis is a feature of deficiency in adults
B6
Vitamin deficiency: Seen in ileal resections due to Crohn’s disease
B12
Vitamin deficiency: Rosary at costochondral junction
Vitamin C
Vitamin deficiency: Typical radiographic changes occur at distal ends of long bones
Vitamin C
Vitamin deficiency: Horizontal depression along lower anterior chest
Vitamin D (Harrison groove)
Vitamin deficiency: Rachitic changes most easily visualized on PA radiographs of wrist
Vitamin D
Vitamin deficiency: Primary deficiency rare except in premature infants and severe, generalized malnutrition
Vitamin E
Vitamin deficiency: Shafts of long bones have ground-glass appearance due to trabecular atrophy
Vitamin C
Vitamin deficiency: Pencil outlining of diaphysis and epiphysis
Vitamin C
Vitamin deficiency: Disease of growing bone and occurs in children only before fusion of the epiphyses
Vitamin D (Rickets)
Vitamin deficiency: Edge of metaphysis loses its sharp border (fraying)
Vitamin D
Vitamin deficiency: Irregular but thickened white line at the metaphysis representing the zone of well-calcified cartilage
Vitamin C (White line of Frenkel)
Vitamin deficiency: Edge of metaphysis changes from a convex or flat surface to a more concave surface (cupping)
Vitamin D
Vitamin deficiency: More specific but late radiographic feature is a zone of refraction under the white line at the metaphysis
Vitamin C (Trumerfed zone)
Vitamin deficiency: Hemolysis during the 2nd month of life in premature infants
Vitamin E
3 forms of vitamin K-deficiency bleeding
1) Classic HDN/sec to low stores of Vit K at birth 2) Late VKDB 3) At birth or shortly thereafter/sec to maternal intake of meds that cross placenta and interfere with vit K function