Moeller-barlow-cheadlesche-disease E64.2

Author: Prof. Dr. med. Peter Altmeyer

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Last updated on: 23.12.2020

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Synonym(s)

ascorbic acid deficiency; Avitaminosis C; Infant Basket Butt; infantile scorbut; infantile scurvy; rachitic scurvy; Rickets hemorrhagic; scorbut infantile; Scurvy infantile; Scurvy rachitic; vitamin C deficiency

History
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Moeller, 1859; Cheadle, 1872; Barlow, 1883

Definition
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Chronic vitamin C deficiency syndrome in children with bleeding tendency.

Etiopathogenesis
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Vitamin C deficiency due to malabsorption or unbalanced malnutrition. Pathogenetically important is ascorbic acid as an essential building material for the normal formation of collagen and chondroitin sulphate. Vitamin C has a high redox potential and is found in high concentrations in the lens, adrenal glands and CNS; in the case of deficiency, enchondral bone formation is disturbed.

Manifestation
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In children, mainly in the first 2 years of life.

Clinical features
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  • Skin/mucous membrane: Petechial haemorrhages in skin (ears, throat) and mucous membranes (gums, palate). Blue-red discoloration and swelling of the gingiva. Oedematous swelling of the legs.
  • Other symptoms: anemia, wound healing disorder, joint swelling irritability, restlessness, weight loss and tachypnea; high degree of touch sensitivity with pseudoparalysis and typical frog posture of the legs, distension of the cartilaginous bone border of the ribs (scorbutic stepped chest); hematuria, melaena. Painfulness and swelling of the lower limbs due to subperiosteal hemorrhage with wincing at the lightest touch (jumping jack phenomenon).

Laboratory
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Micro- or macrohematuria.

Diagnosis
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Radiological: Characteristic debris field zones in the epiphyseal region (most pronounced in the knee region) and subperiosteal hemorrhages.

Differential diagnosis
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Rickets, syphilis connata; osteomyelitis; poliomyelitis; septic-purulent arthritis; purpura Schöenlein-Hennoch; acrodyny; rheumatic fever; Caffey-Silverman syndrome; Ewing's sarcoma; melorheostosis.

Therapy
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Adequate intake of ascorbic acid (500-1000 mg/day i.v. or 150-2000 mg/day p.o.), adequate nutrition

Literature
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  1. Barlow T (1883) On cases described as "acute rickets" which are probably a combination of scurvy and rickets, the scurvy being an essential, and the rickets a variable, element. Med Chir Transact (London) 66: 159-219
  2. Chartier TK et al (2003) Palpable purpura in an elderly man. Arch Dermatol 139: 1363-1368
  3. Cheadle WB (1872) Scurvy and purpura. BMY 2: 520-522
  4. Conitzer L (1894) Two cases of Moeller-Barlow's disease Münch med Wschr 11: 203
  5. De Luna RH et al (2003) Scurvy: an often forgotten cause of bleeding. At J Hematol 74: 85-87
  6. Fain O et al (2003) Hypovitaminosis C in hospitalized patients. Eur J Internal Med 14: 419-425
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  8. Heubner O (1892) On scurvy diseases of rachitic infants (Barlow's disease). Jb Children's Hospital Berlin NF 35: 351
  9. Moeller JOL (1859) About acute rickets. Königsberger Med JbI: 377
  10. Padh H (1991) Vitamin C: newer insight into its biochemical functions. Nutr Rev 49: 65-70
  11. Pimentel L (2003) Scurvy: historical review and current diagnostic approach. On J Emerg Med 21: 328-332

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Last updated on: 23.12.2020