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Vitamin B12 deficiency in infancy as a cause of developmental regression

Vitamin B12 deficiency in infancy as a cause of developmental regression

Authors :
Marcelo Valente
Fernando Kok
Erasmo Barbante Casella
Jessie Navarro
Source :
Brain and Development. 27:592-594
Publication Year :
2005
Publisher :
Elsevier BV, 2005.

Abstract

Vitamin B12 deficiency can cause serious developmental regression, hypotonia and cerebral atrophy in infants. We report a 6-month-old infant, with insidious developmental regression and brain atrophy showed by CT scan, secondarily to vitamin B12 deficiency. His mother was a strict vegetarian and the patient was exclusively breastfed. The clinical symptoms and the brain CT were normalized after vitamin B12 administration.

Details

ISSN :
03877604
Volume :
27
Database :
OpenAIRE
Journal :
Brain and Development
Accession number :
edsair.doi.dedup.....7142af047a4b9e98aaf1c638f7917ff5
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.braindev.2005.02.005