Concept information
Preferred term
Vitamin E Deficiency
Type
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Topical Descriptor
Broader concept
Narrower concepts
Entry terms
- Deficiencies, Vitamin E
- Deficiency, Vitamin E
- Vitamin E Deficiencies
Scope note
- A nutritional condition produced by a deficiency of VITAMIN E in the diet, characterized by posterior column and spinocerebellar tract abnormalities, areflexia, ophthalmoplegia, and disturbances of gait, proprioception, and vibration. In premature infants vitamin E deficiency is associated with hemolytic anemia, thrombocytosis, edema, intraventricular hemorrhage, and increasing risk of retrolental fibroplasia and bronchopulmonary dysplasia. An apparent inborn error of vitamin E metabolism, named familial isolated vitamin E deficiency, has recently been identified. (Cecil Textbook of Medicine, 19th ed, p1181)
In other languages
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Finnish
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deficientia vitamini E
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E-vitamiinin puute
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E-vitamiininpuute
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E-vitamiinipuute
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E-vitamiinipuutos
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E-vitaminbrist
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Swedish
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Vitamin E-brist
URI
http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D014811
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