Evaluation of Thrombocytopenia in Megaloblastic Anemia by Platelet Indices and Megakaryocytes- Comparison with Hypoproduction and Hyperdestruction [PDF]
Introduction: Thrombocytopenia may result from many mechanisms such as: marrow hypoplasia (decreased megakaryocytes), ineffective thrombopoiesis (normal to increased megakaryocytes) and increased destruction of platelets (increased megakaryocytes ...
Rajalakshmi Birur Rajashekar +2 more
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Clinical and experimental studies on folic acid deficiency due to anticonvulsants. I. Clinical and nutritional study on megalobastic anemia due to anticonvulsants [PDF]
Two cases of megaloblastic anemia associated with anticonvulsant drugs were studied. Both cases were inpatients of psychiatric hospitals and had quite inadequate intakes of food. The former had lung tuber. culosis and the second had febril illness before
Taguchi, Hirokuni
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Deoxyuridine suppression test: a comparison of two methods and effect of thymidine on the incorporation of 3H-deoxyuridine into DNA in human bone marrow cells [PDF]
Deoxyuridine suppression tests have been performed by two different methods of six normoblastic and eight megaloblastic marrows. A good correlation was obtained between the results by the modified and the original methods. The simplified method was found
Chanarin, Israel +2 more
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Earliest Porotic Hyperostosis on a 1.5-Million-year-old Hominin, olduvai gorge, Tanzania. [PDF]
Meat-eating was an important factor affecting early hominin brain expansion, social organization and geographic movement. Stone tool butchery marks on ungulate fossils in several African archaeological assemblages demonstrate a significant level of ...
Agness Gidna +17 more
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Clinical and experimental studies on folic acid deficiency due to anticonvulsants. 2. Investigations on patients receiving anticonvulsants and experimental study on the effect of diphenylhydantoin on the absorption of folic acid in rats [PDF]
A high incidence of subnormal serum folic acid levels was observed in 48 patients receiving anticonvulsants (75 %). In peripheral blood, macrocytosis was detected in 46 % and an increase of hypersegmented neutrophils was also seen in 24 % of the patients.
Taguchi, Hirokuni
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Objective: To study the diagnostic utility of lactate dehydrogenase levels in differentiating megaloblastic anemia from myelodysplastic anemia in Pakistan. Study Design: Comparative cross-sectional study.
Faraz Ali Rana +5 more
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Severe Megaloblastic Anaemia in an Infant [PDF]
Vitamin B 12 or cobalamin deficiency, a rare clinical entity in pediatric age, is found most exclusively in breastfed infants, whose mothers are strictly vegetarian non-supplemented or with pernicious anaemia.
Brito, MJ +4 more
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Anemia in the elderly patients with special reference to folic acid status [PDF]
To investigate the role of folic acid deficiency in the pathogenesis of anemia in the elderly, hematological examinationa and assays of serum iron, vitamin B12 and folate were carried out on the 86 elderly patients admitted to a home for the aged.
Sanada, Hiroshi, Taguchi, Hirokuni
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Thiamine-responsive megaloblastic anemia syndrome: A case report
Thiamine-responsive megaloblastic anemia (TRMA) syndrome is a rare autosomal recessive disorder characterized by a cardinal triad consisting of megaloblastic anemia, sensorineural deafness, and diabetes mellitus.
Omkar Patil +5 more
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Upper gastrointestinal symptoms in autoimmune gastritis. A cross-sectional study [PDF]
Autoimmune gastritis is often suspected for its hematologic findings, and rarely the diagnosis is made for the presence of gastrointestinal symptoms. Aims of this cross-sectional study were to assess in a large cohort of patients affected by autoimmune ...
Annibale, Bruno +5 more
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