Affiliations 

  • 1 Paediatric and Congenital Heart Centre, Institut Jantung Negara (National Heart Institute of Malaysia), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Cardiol Young, 2021 Feb;31(2):322-324.
PMID: 33300487 DOI: 10.1017/S104795112000390X

Abstract

Vitamin C deficiency has been a historical disease rarely seen nowadays. We illustrate a case of a boy with autism presenting with severe pulmonary hypertension and refusal to walk secondary to vitamin C deficiency. Initiating treatment with high-dose vitamin C reversed his symptoms and he regained full power of his lower limbs with total normalisation of his pulmonary pressures.

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