Reversible neurological symptoms caused by vitamin E deficiency in a patient with short bowel syndrome
- 1 December 1982
- journal article
- case report
- Published by Elsevier BV in The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition
- Vol. 36 (6), 1243-1249
- https://doi.org/10.1093/ajcn/36.6.1243
Abstract
The effect of vitamin E deprivation on the fully developed human nervous system is not known. In children with fat malabsorption from various causes neuropathological and neurological changes have been ascribed to vitamin E deficiency. Herein we described a neurological deficit that occurred in a 64-yr-old man with chronic steatorrhea leading to severe vitamin E deficiency. Long-term supplementation with vitamin E resulted in clinical improvement beginning a few months after normalization of his vitamin E status.Keywords
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