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Biermer's disease unveiled: Bilateral macular hemorrhage as a rare manifestation-A case report. [PDF]

SAGE Open Med Case Rep
The patient, a 30-year-old woman, presented with a sudden, painless, and severe decrease in vision in both eyes. The ophthalmological examination revealed a normal anterior segment and intraocular pressure, but a fundus examination showed bilateral ...
Sara BAI, Mohammed H, Hassan M, Ahmed B, Fouad C, Meriem A, Idriss BA.   +6 more
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Rapid Improvement of Hyperpigmentation, Growth, and Developmental Milestones With High-Dose Hydroxocobalamin, Betaine, and Folinic Acid Treatment: The First Patient With Cobalamin G Deficiency in Taiwan. [PDF]

JIMD Rep
ABSTRACT In this report, we present the case of a 16‐month‐old patient who was diagnosed with cobalamin G deficiency at 4 months of age via whole exome sequencing by detecting compound heterozygous variants of uncertain significance (VUS) in the MTR gene: (1) c.1283T>A, p.Met428Lys; (2) c.2411T>C, p.Ile804Thr. Before the diagnosis, the initial clinical
Wu CT, Huang SJ, Chen CC, Chiu PC.
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Severe megaloblastic anemia in a patient with advanced lung adenocarcinoma during treatment with erlotinib: a case report and literature review. [PDF]

BMC Pulm Med
Background Erlotinib is a first-generation, tyrosine kinase inhibitor of the epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR-TKI) used for the treatment patients with NSCLC.
Yan X, Kong J, Wang J, Wang C, Shen H.
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Role of LDH levels in differentiating anemias

Asian Journal of Medical Sciences, 2021
Background: There is a need to differentiate megaloblastic anemia from mixed deficiency anemia as both require different management protocols. With the acquisition of more information about them, tests such as serum vitamin estimation and Schilling test,
Noorin Zaidi , Rasha Zia Usmani , Kshama Tiwari , Sumaiya Irfan , Syed Riaz Mehdi   +4 more
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Massive Splenomegaly: A Rare Presentation of Megaloblastic Anemia

International Journal of Hematology-Oncology and Stem Cell Research, 2021
Megaloblastic anemia is a common disorder with various manifestations. Of the many causes, cobalamin or folate deficiency can eventuate into megaloblastic anemia.
Tahereh Gholipour, Alireza Sadeghi, Padideh Oghab, Pegah Farrokhi, Azadeh Moghaddas   +4 more
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MEGALOBLASTIC ANEMIA IN CHILDREN: CASE SERIES FROM A SINGLE INSTITUTION AND LITERATURE REVIEW [PDF]

Romanian Journal of Pediatrics, 2018
Folic acid and cobalamin are B-group vitamins that play an essential role in many cellular processes. Deficiency in one or both of these vitamins causes megaloblastic anemia, a very rare anemia in children, which is characterized by the presence of ...
Andreea Oltean, Mihaela Ioana Chincesan, Maria Despina Baghiu, Eniko Molnar, Cristina Oana Marginean   +4 more
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Megaloblastic anemia associated with small bowel resection in an adult patient

Nigerian Journal of Medicine, 2021
Megaloblastic anemia is characterized by macro-ovalocytosis, cytopenias, and nucleocytoplasmic maturation asynchrony of marrow erythroblast. The development of megaloblastic anemia is usually insidious in onset, and symptoms are present only in severely ...
Ajayi Adeleke Ibijola, Abiodun Idowu Okunlola   +1 more
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Novel WDR62 and MTR Variants in a Patient With Autosomal Recessive Primary Microcephaly-2 With Polymicrogyria and Homocystinuria-Megaloblastic Anemia [PDF]

Disease and Diagnosis, 2022
Background: Autosomal recessive primary microcephaly-2 (MCPH2) is a rare genetic disorder with clinical and genetic heterogeneity. This study aimed to perform high-throughput whole-exome sequencing (WES) to facilitate the diagnosis of the genetic ...
Tahereh Dianat, Dor Mohammad Kordi Tamandani, Maryam Najafi, Ali Khajeh   +3 more
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Is it possible to obtain reliable estimates for the prevalence of anemia and childhood stunting among children under 5 in the poorest districts in Peru? [PDF]

Vol. 50 N\'um. 95 (2023): Apuntes 95, 2023
In this article we describe and apply the Fay-Herriot model with spatially correlated random area effects (Pratesi, M., & Salvati, N. (2008)), in order to predict the prevalence of anemia and childhood stunting in Peruvian districts, based on the data from the Demographic and Family Health Survey of the year 2019, which collects data about anemia and ...
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Idiopathic autoimmune hemolytic anemia along with concomitant vitamin B12 deficiency in an adolescent girl: A rare occurrence

Journal of Family Medicine and Primary Care, 2020
Vitamin B12 deficiency is seen in countries like India mainly because of predominantly vegetarian diet and is a significant health problem. Patients present with various neurological and hematological manifestations of megaloblastic anemia.
Kapil Bhalla, Nisha Verma, Sanjiv Nanda, Ashish Gupta, Shuchi Mehra   +4 more
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