night blindness/diarrhea

A patient underwent end-to-side jejunoileostomy for morbid obesity, and 3 years later an end-to-end jejunoileostomy with ileotransversostomy was performed. Nine years later she presented with night blindness, severe diarrhea and mild jaundice and was found to have malabsorption with vitamin A and K

Preschool-age rural Indonesian children were reexamined every 3 months for 18 months. An average of 3135 children were free of respiratory disease and or diarrhea at the examination initiating each of the six, 3-month follow-up intervals. Children with mild xerophthalmia (night blindness and/or

We examined the association among elevations in acute phase proteins, reported illness, and hyporetinolemia in 234 pregnant Nepali women with (cases) and without (controls) night blindness. Serum alpha1-acid glycoprotein (AGP) and C-reactive protein (CRP) were inversely associated with serum retinol

OBJECTIVE The present study aimed to estimate the prevalence of acute diarrhea and its correlates in remote rural villages of south Pakistan. METHODS The authors selected 1878 children less than 3 years of age through stratified random sampling from 64 villages having the number of children enrolled

Maternal night blindness is common during pregnancy in many developing countries. Previous studies have demonstrated important consequences of maternal night blindness during pregnancy on the health of the mother and newborn infant. We compared birthweight, 6-mo infant mortality, morbidity, and

OBJECTIVE: To review cases of vitamin A deficiency and the effects of vitamin A supplementation on child morbidity and mortality. METHODS: Articles published in scientific journals, technical and scientific books, and also publications by international organizations were used as source of

OBJECTIVE To identify risk factors for xerophthalmia in the Republic of Kiribati. METHODS Case-control study. METHODS The Republic of Kiribati. METHODS 666 xerophthalmic preschool children (cases) and 816 children without xerophthalmia (controls) from a population-based sample of 4619 children who

OBJECTIVE To determine the risk factors of xerophthalmia among preschool children in rural India. METHODS This cross-sectional study was carried out between January and June 1998 in the area of Bihta Primary Health Center in Bihar, India and included 4,205 preschool children from 14 villages. The

During the U.S. Civil War, nutritional night blindness was a common problem among soldiers forced to subsist of nutritionally inadequate diets, but medical officers typically attributed this complaint to malingering and did not suspect or appreciate a dietary basis. More than 8,000 cases of night

Mild vitamin A deficiency may be associated with increased morbidity and mortality among children in developing countries. A community-based case-control study was performed to determine risk factors for mild ophthalmologic manifestations of vitamin A deficiency in urban Bangladeshi children. Cases

Over 1500 preschool urban Indian children were followed weekly for morbidity from 12 to 18 mo. Examination for mild xerophthalmia (Bitot's spots and night blindness) was done initially and at 6 and 12 mo. Children with mild xerophthalmia at the start of a 6-mo interval developed respiratory disease

We report a 53-year-old woman with probable Bassen-Kornzweig syndrome. Her parents were a consanguineous marriage. At two years of age, she developed night blindness. During her childhood she had severe diarrhea that disappeared in adulthood. At 26 years of age, she was diagnosed as having retinitis

In traditional Chinese medicines, atractylodes rhizome ("Cangzhu" in Chinese) is used for the treatment of rheumatic diseases, digestive disorders, mild diarrhea, night-blindness. According to the Pharmacopoeia of China (2005 Edition), Rhizoma Atractylodis is the dried root of Atractylodes lancea

We describe the clinicoepidemiologic features, natural history, and therapeutic manipulations in three Greek patients with A-beta-lipoproteinemia (two brothers aged 15 and 29 years, respectively, and one sister aged 30 years). Diarrhea started in infancy in the two brothers and from the age of 13 in

OBJECTIVE AUY922 is a potent non-geldanamycin inhibitor of heat-shock protein 90. This study was carried out in Japanese patients to determine the maximum tolerated dose (MTD), and to characterize safety, tolerability and pharmacokinetics of single-agent AUY922. METHODS Japanese patients with