Shoshin Beriberi in Critically-Ill patients: case series

Nutrition Journal

Table 1 Characteristics and outcomes of the 4 critically ill patients with presumed Shoshin beriberi

Case No.	Underlying Disease	Duration of total parenteral nutrition	Nadir serum bicarbonate (mmol/L)	Peak lactate (mmol/L)	Initial thiamine intravenous dosing regimen	Time to hemodynamic recovery	Outcome
1	Gastric surgery	15 days	9	23	100 mg daily for 50 days	48 hours	Recovery
2	Pancreatic cancer	29 days	11	14	100 mg daily for 26 days	6 hours	Recovery
3	Type-1 glycogen storage disease	-	8	32	100 mg daily for 25 days	24 hours	Recovery
4	Peritonitis	26 days	9	35	100 mg daily for 13 days	12 hours	Death

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