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Neuro-regression in vitamin B12 deficiency.

Abstract

Neuroregression in infants has varied aetiology and vitamin B12 deficiency is one of the uncommon causes. Infantile vitamin B12 deficiency is encountered in malnourished infants or in offspring of strict vegan mothers. We present two cases, both infants of 10 and 8 months of age, whose mothers had vitamin B12 deficiency. On admission, the patients were apathic, hypotonic and lethargic. Serum vitamin B12 levels were below normal limits. On cranial MRI, T2-weighted images revealed frontoparietal cortical atrophy. Both the infants responded to vitamin B12 treatment.

Entities: Disease Gene Species

Year: 2009 PMID： 21686891 PMCID： PMC3029636 DOI： 10.1136/bcr.06.2008.0235

Source DB: PubMed Journal: BMJ Case Rep ISSN： 1757-790X

11 in total

Review 1. MRI of the spinal cord in myelopathy complicating vitamin B12 deficiency: two additional cases and a review of the literature.

Authors: S S Bassi; K K Bulundwe; G P Greeff; J H Labuscagne; R F Gledhill
Journal: Neuroradiology Date: 1999-04 Impact factor: 2.804

Neuro-regression in vitamin B12 deficiency.

Review 1. MRI of the spinal cord in myelopathy complicating vitamin B12 deficiency: two additional cases and a review of the literature.

2. Involuntary movements and magnetic resonance imaging findings in infantile cobalamine (vitamin B12) deficiency.

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4. Vitamin B12 deficiency: a cause of abnormal movements in infants.

Review 5. Persistence of neurological damage induced by dietary vitamin B-12 deficiency in infancy.

6. Retardation of myelination due to dietary vitamin B12 deficiency: cranial MRI findings.

7. Vitamin B12 deficiency in infancy as a cause of developmental regression.

8. Severe vitamin B12 deficiency in an infant associated with a maternal deficiency and a strict vegetarian diet.

9. Long-term neurologic consequences of nutritional vitamin B12 deficiency in infants.

Review 10. Vitamin B12 metabolism and status during pregnancy, lactation and infancy.

1. Vitamin B₁₂ deficiency as a cause of severe neurological symptoms in breast fed infant - a case report.