Blind loop syndrome, vitamin E malabsorption, and spinocerebellar degeneration
- 1 March 1985
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wolters Kluwer Health in Neurology
- Vol. 35 (3) , 338
- https://doi.org/10.1212/wnl.35.3.338
Abstract
A 72 -year-old man had severe malabsorption, progressive retinopathy, and spinocerebellar degeneration 32 years after gastric surgery, blind loop formation, and intestinal bacterial overgrowth. Clinical and pathologic features were typical of vitamin E deficiency; vitamin E was nearly undetectable in serum and profoundly low in adipose tissue. Vitamin E blood levels initially improved on treatment with antibiotics; after additional vitamin E supplementation, there was clinical improvement.This publication has 17 references indexed in Scilit:
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