ALLMedicine™ Pellagra Center

May 13th, 2022 - Practice Essentials Pellagra is clinically manifested by the 4 D' s: photosensitive dermatitis, diarrhea, dementia, and death. This is the only photosensitivity syndrome where death is included as a cardinal clinical feature.[1] The full tetrad of...

May 13th, 2022 - Practice Essentials Pellagra is clinically manifested by the 4 D' s: photosensitive dermatitis, diarrhea, dementia, and death. This is the only photosensitivity syndrome where death is included as a cardinal clinical feature. [1] The full tetrad o...

May 3rd, 2022 - Pellagra caused by niacin deficiency in alcoholics can be easily misdiagnosed because of similar symptoms to other alcohol-related diseases and the lack of the classical triad of signs. This study aimed to define the clinical presentation of alcoh...

Apr 16th, 2022 - Preventing pellagra during isoniazid preventive treatment.|2022|Kapata N,Zumla A,|therapeutic use,therapeutic use,prevention & control,

Apr 16th, 2022 - Pellagra is caused by niacin (vitamin B3) deficiency and patients with pellagra present with a characteristic rash. Isoniazid disrupts intracellular niacin synthesis and might induce niacin deficiency. In 2017, Malawi scaled up continuous isoniazi...

Jan 11th, 2022 - The postoperative delirium picture is a serious and common complication seen after any major surgery, including hepatic resection. Delirium is an acute state of confusion characterized by impaired consciousness, reduced ability to focus on attenti...

Mar 16th, 2016 - Chen et al (N Engl J Med. 2015;373:1618-1626) performed a multicenter, phase 3, double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled trial.

Aug 13th, 2014 - A "Curve Ball" in Vitamin D Research? Medscape: Your results suggested that the risk for all-cause mortality follows an inverse J-curve, with the effect stopping around 60-70 ng/mL, rather than a U-curve postulated in the IOM report, with potentia...

Mar 29th, 2006 - Introduction Rapid advances are being made in understanding the role of the environment in the illnesses of infancy and childhood. The emerging body of knowledge, known as environmental pediatrics (or pediatric environmental health), shows that ch...

Apr 21st, 2004 - Both Dr. Kampmeier, who would teach us physical diagnosis, and Dr. Keller impressed over and over that no disease had ever been eliminated by any treatment. Diseases cannot be eliminated by treatment. The reason is obvious. Until the reservoir of ...

We report a peculiar case of hemorrhagic pellagra in an exhausted Albanian refugee who had walked for 3 days under sunny skies on his way from his country to Greece. The peculiarities of the case are the fulminant course of the disorder; the "terr.