ICD-11 definition : The clinical picture of Beriberi is usually divided into a dry (neuritic) type and
a wet (cardiac) type. The disease is wet or dry depending on the amount of fluid which
accumulates in the body due to factors like cardiac function, kidney lesions and others;
even though the exact cause for this oedema has never been successfully explained.
Many cases of thiamine deficiency show a mixture of the two main features and are
more properly termed thiamine deficiency with cardiopathy and peripheral neuropathy.
The infant shows signs of cyanosis and an acute cardiac attack can follow with the
infant usually dying within 2 to 4 hours. The common age for this form of the deficiency
disease is one month up through the third month. This type of deficiency responds
very dramatically to thiamine.;
ICD-11 synonym : beriberi due to vitamin B1 deficiency; kakkè; endemic polyneuritis; beriberi due to thiamine vitamin deficiency; beriberi NOS;
The clinical picture of Beriberi is usually divided into a dry (neuritic) type and
a wet (cardiac) type. The disease is wet or dry depending on the amount of fluid which
accumulates in the body due to factors like cardiac function, kidney lesions and others;
even though the exact cause for this oedema has never been successfully explained.
Many cases of thiamine deficiency show a mixture of the two main features and are
more properly termed thiamine deficiency with cardiopathy and peripheral neuropathy.
The infant shows signs of cyanosis and an acute cardiac attack can follow with the
infant usually dying within 2 to 4 hours. The common age for this form of the deficiency
disease is one month up through the third month. This type of deficiency responds
very dramatically to thiamine.