BERIBERI HEART IN A 4 MONTH OLD INFANT
- 19 December 1942
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Medical Association (AMA) in JAMA
- Vol. 120 (16) , 1292-1293
- https://doi.org/10.1001/jama.1942.82830510001007
Abstract
Infantile beriberi has rarely been reported in the continental United States. Waring1in 1928 recorded the occurrence of this disease in a 2 month old child with findings of cardiac hypertrophy, loss of knee reflexes, hepatic enlargement and finally heart failure. A poor nutritional background was given as the etiologic factor. Other observers2have mentioned the possibility of beriberi being one of the causes of enlarged hearts in occidental infants. The following report is of an infant that for two months had been on a limited diet of boiled human milk and subsequently developed an enlarged heart, which diminished in size with thiamine hydrochloride therapy. REPORT OF CASE R. S., a white boy, was born at the Beth El Hospital on Feb. 19, 1938, two weeks before term and of normal spontaneous delivery. The stay in the hospital was uneventful, and he was discharged on the tenth dayKeywords
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