Tan Jason W Y, Lee Olive P E, Leong Ming Chern
Paediatric and Congenital Heart Centre, Institut Jantung Negara (National Heart Institute of Malaysia), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
Cardiol Young. 2021 Feb;31(2):322-324. doi: 10.1017/S104795112000390X. Epub 2020 Dec 10.
Vitamin C deficiency has been a historical disease rarely seen nowadays. We illustrate a case of a boy with autism presenting with severe pulmonary hypertension and refusal to walk secondary to vitamin C deficiency. Initiating treatment with high-dose vitamin C reversed his symptoms and he regained full power of his lower limbs with total normalisation of his pulmonary pressures.
维生素C缺乏症在历史上是一种疾病,如今已很少见。我们举例介绍了一名患有自闭症的男孩,因维生素C缺乏而出现严重肺动脉高压并拒绝行走。开始使用高剂量维生素C治疗后,他的症状得到缓解,下肢恢复了全部力量,肺动脉压力完全恢复正常。