A Case Report of Wet Beriberi Due to Excessive White Rice Consumption in an Elderly Male Patient: A Potentially Forgotten and Underrecognized Disease

Thiamine deficiency can cause various clinical manifestations. Wet beriberi, a phenotype of thiamine deficiency, is often underdiagnosed in clinical practice due to the nonspecificity of symptoms. An 83-year-old man presented to a primary care clinic with a two-month history of progressing edema in...

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