Shah Vandan, Shah Ruchit N, Greene Lauren, DiMarino Lauren M
Geisinger Medical Center, 100 N Academy Ave, Danville, PA 17822, USA.
Department of Gastroenterology, 100 N Academy Ave, Danville, PA 17822, USA.
Case Rep Med. 2021 Mar 30;2021:5519937. doi: 10.1155/2021/5519937. eCollection 2021.
Pulmonary hypertension secondary to scurvy is a rare manifestation that historically has not been well studied and is only described in a handful of case reports.
Our case is about a 35-year-old female with a history significant for drug and tobacco abuse, obesity, poor diet, anxiety, and major depressive disorder who was found to have severe pulmonary hypertension in the setting of vitamin C deficiency (<0.01 mg/L).
We present a case that shows pulmonary hypertension can be associated with scurvy and reversed rapidly with adequate vitamin C supplementation.
坏血病继发的肺动脉高压是一种罕见表现,历史上对此研究不足,仅在少数病例报告中有描述。
我们的病例是一名35岁女性,有药物和烟草滥用、肥胖、饮食不良、焦虑及重度抑郁症病史,在维生素C缺乏(<0.01mg/L)的情况下被发现患有严重肺动脉高压。
我们报告一例病例,显示肺动脉高压可与坏血病相关,补充足够的维生素C后可迅速逆转。