脚气病

定义

脚气病的临床表现通常分为干型（神经性）和湿型（心脏性）。该病是湿性还是干性，取决于因心脏功能、肾脏病变等因素而在体内积聚的液体数量；尽管这种水肿的确切原因从未被成功解释过。许多硫胺素缺乏症的病例显示出这两个主要特征的混合，被称为硫胺素缺乏症伴有心脏病变和周围神经病变更为恰当。婴儿出现紫绀症状，随后会出现急性心脏病发作，通常在2至4小时内死亡。这种缺乏症的常见年龄是从一个月到三个月。这种缺乏对硫胺素的反应非常显著。

The clinical picture of Beriberi is usually divided into a dry (neuritic) type and a wet (cardiac) type. The disease is wet or dry depending on the amount of fluid which accumulates in the body due to factors like cardiac function, kidney lesions and others; even though the exact cause for this oedema has never been successfully explained. Many cases of thiamine deficiency show a mixture of the two main features and are more properly termed thiamine deficiency with cardiopathy and peripheral neuropathy. The infant shows signs of cyanosis and an acute cardiac attack can follow with the infant usually dying within 2 to 4 hours. The common age for this form of the deficiency disease is one month up through the third month. This type of deficiency responds very dramatically to thiamine.

子条目 共 3 条

• 5B5A.00干性脚气病
• 5B5A.01湿性脚气病
• 5B5A.0Z未特指的脚气病