Amanda Gomes Pereira, Letycia Netto de Paula Cunha, Sergio Alberto Rupp Paiva, Paula Schmidt Azevedo, Leonardo Antônio Mamede Zornoff, Bertha Furlan Polegato, Nara Aline Costa, Marcos Ferreira Minicucci; An Overview of Beriberi. Med Princ Pract 2025; https://doi.org/10.1159/000547719

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Beriberi is a nutritional disorder due to a thiamine deficiency. It presents as wet and dry beriberi: 

- Wet beriberi affects the cardiovascular system, which may lead to heart failure. Shoshin beriberi is a more severe form of wet beriberi that includes cardiogenic shock, fatigue, loss of appetite, and abdominal pain.  
- Dry beriberi affects the peripheral nervous system that leads to peripheral polyneuropathy (damage to peripheral nerves) causing burning pain sensations, numbness, and muscle weakness.  

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