Nitrofurantoin and peripheral neuropathy with megaloblastic anaemia.

Role of NEUT-X & NEUT-Y in picking up megaloblastic anaemia on peripheral blood & in differentiating from other macrocytic anaemia

Pernicious anaemia among Arabs in Kuwait.

Addisonian pernicious anaemia is believed to be very rare in Arabs. Three cases are reported. Two were Jordanians of Palestinian origin and one an Egyptian. All had the typical peripheral macrocytosis, a frankly megaloblastic bone marrow, and a Schilling test result in the range of pernicious anaemia. All three improved remarkably on vitamin B(12) therapy and have maintained a normal haemoglobi...

The neuropsychiatry of megaloblastic anaemia.

The neuropsychiatric states of 50 patients with vitamin B12 deficiency and 34 patients with folate deficiency presenting with megaloblastosis in a general hospital were examined and compared. Abnormalities of the nervous system were found in two-thirds of both groups. Peripheral neuropathy was the most common condition associated with vitamin B12 deficiency and affective disorder with folate de...

Partial villous atrophy in nutritional megaloblastic anaemia corrected by folic acid therapy.

A patient with megaloblastic anaemia due to nutritional folate deficiency is described. Partial villous atrophy and malabsorption of xylose showed progressive improvement to normal with folic acid therapy.

Megaloblastic anaemia associated with adult scurvy.

Nowadays scurvy is fortunately rare. Cases are still found among the inmates of common lodging houses and those living alone, where age, decrepitude, or apathy may have led to an inadequate dietary intake. Rigid dieting as in peptic ulcer' may be an unusual cause. While the blood picture may show little change in the milder cases, anaemia of variable degree occurs in most adults with scurvy. It...