Case report describes severe copper deficiency manifesting as anemia and neutropenia in a thriving preterm infant, highlighting that nutritional deprivation can occur without overt marasmus.
PURE copper deficiency in man has probably never been observed. When it occurs other deficiencies complicate the picture. In infants, a disorder characterized by hypocupremia, hypoferremia, neutropenia, hypoproteinemia and anemia has been reported.1,2Recently, we had the opportunity to study a three-month-old, low-birth-weight infant with the clinical and laboratory picture of copper deficiency who was not marasmic and had been thriving rather well.Case ReportJ.P., a 3-month-old male Indian infant, was referred for evaluation of anemia and a Central-nervous-system disorder. He had been born at 34 weeks' gestation, with an Apgar score of 2 at birth and a weight . . .
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