A rare presentation of an ancient disease: Scurvy presenting as orthostatic hypotension

BMJ Case Reports

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages

  Zipursky, Jonathan Samuel ^a   Alhashemi, Ahmad ^a   Juurlink, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASCORBIC ACID; CORTICOTROPIN; HEMOGLOBIN; HYDROCORTISONE; MULTIVITAMIN; QUETIAPINE; SODIUM;

ADULT; ARTHRALGIA; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE MONITORING; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DIZZINESS; DYSPNEA; ECCHYMOSIS; ENCEPHALOMALACIA; FALLING; FOLLOW UP; GINGIVA DISEASE; GINGIVAL DYSPLASIA; HEAD INJURY; HEART PALPITATION; HEMOGLOBIN BLOOD LEVEL; HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; MYALGIA; ORTHOSTATIC HYPOTENSION; PRESYNCOPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RASH; SCURVY; SKIN BRUISING; SODIUM BLOOD LEVEL; TREATMENT RESPONSE; VITAMIN BLOOD LEVEL;

EID: 84901430249     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1757790X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bcr-2013-201982     Document Type: Article

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