Women may become deficient in thiamine in just a few weeks.
He was treated with intravenous thiamine and had a dramatic and sustained recovery of ventricular function.
They were able to metabolize radio-isotope labelled glucose and accumulate thiamine against a concentration gradient.
A diet high in carbohydrate increases the requirement for thiamine, and thus exacerbates any state of deficiency.
The patient is now fed via a gastrostomy tube, and receives daily supplementation of vitamins including thiamine.
It may respond to thiamine in the early stages.
The main organ functioning as the principal storage depot for thiamine is the liver.
It was considered that the predominant etiological factor for acute delirium was thiamine deficiency.
