Hematological Findings in Children with Vitamin B12 Deficiency

Vitamin B12 deficiency induced myelopathy: MRI findings

Long-term outcome in children with nutritional vitamin B12 deficiency.

OBJECTIVE Vitamin B12 deficiency is frequently observed in developing countries. Herein we report the long-term clinical and laboratory outcomes in 45 children presented with various symptoms of vitamin B12 deficiency. METHODS Symptoms and physical findings, and percentiles for weight, height, and head circumference at presentation were recorded. The educational level of the patients' mothers...

Vitamin B12 Deficiency

Functional vitamin B12 deficiency is a syndrome where a wide variety of symptoms in the presence of “normal” serum levels of the vitamin respond to vitamin B12 therapy. A series of patients with functional vitamin B12 deficiency are described whose presenting features were drenching night sweats and fatigue. Reliance on serum vitamin B12 levels as a diagnostic test would have obscured the cause...

Vitamin B12 deficiency.

Patients with subacute combined degeneration who smoked had significantly lowered plasma thiocyanate levels than control smokers, but plasma thiocyanate levels in non-smoking patients with neurological disease due to vitamin B1, deficiency were not significantly different from control values. The results provide no support for the hypothesis that chronic cyanide intoxication is responsible for ...

Vitamin B12 deficiency.

Haematology, Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK Correspondence to: A Hunt [email protected] Cite this as: BMJ 2014;349:g5226 doi: 10.1136/bmj.g5226 Vitamin B12 is an essential cofactor that is integral to methylation processes important in reactions related to DNA and cell metabolism, thus a deficiency may lead to disruption of DNA and cell metabolism and thus have serious c...