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پلاگر
Sign in to saveAlso known as Niacin deficiency, Niacin-tryptophan deficiency, Pellagra (disorder), Pellagra
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Key facts
- Medical condition (new).name
- Pellagra
- Medical condition (new).image
- Pellagra2.jpg
- Medical condition (new).caption
- The skin features of pellagra including peeling, redness, scaling, and thickening of sun-exposed areas.
- Medical condition (new).field
- Dermatology
- Medical condition (new).symptoms
- Inflammation of the skin, diarrhea, dementia, sores in the mouth
- Medical condition (new).types
- Primary, secondary
- Medical condition (new).causes
- Not enough niacin
- Medical condition (new).diagnosis
- Based on symptoms
- Medical condition (new).differential
- Kwashiorkor, pemphigus, photodermatitis, porphyria
- Medical condition (new).prevention
- Consuming Niacin
- Medical condition (new).treatment
- Nicotinic acid or nicotinamide supplementation.
- Medical condition (new).prognosis
- Good (with treatment), death in ~ 5 years (without treatment)
- Medical condition (new).frequency
- Rare (developed world), relatively common (developing world)
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Research
1,729 papersvia PubMed
Wikidata facts
- Subclass of
- nutritional deficiency disease
- Image
- Pellagra NIH.jpg
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- on focus list of Wikimedia project
- WikiProject Medicine
- health specialty
- endocrinology
- symptoms and signs
- diarrhea
- drug or therapy used for treatment
- niacinamide
- exact match
- www.orpha.net/ORDO/Orphanet_97352
- ICD-9-CM
- 265.2
- Commons category
- Pellagra
- ICPC 2 ID
- T91
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