The Anemia of Scurvy

Experimental nutritional megaloblastic anemia and scurvy in the monkey. III. Protoporphyrin, coproporphyrin, urobilinogen and iron in blood and excreta.

Experimental megaloblastic anemia and scurvy in the monkey. V. Nature of the relation of ascorbic acid deficiency to the metabolism of folic acid compounds.

was a regular complications of scurvy ins monkeys fed milk diets. Reports have beers published concerning the various manifestations in the animals’ arid of the hematologic findings.2 This paper provides data on the vitamin Bn2 and folic acid compounds ins the liver, diets arid excreta of the experimental ansimals. These data are correlated with the findings iii the horse marrow and the effects...

Experimental megaloblastic anemia and scurvy in the monkey. IV. Vitamin B12 and folic acid compounds in the diet, liver, urine and feces and effects of therapy.

was a regular complications of scurvy ins monkeys fed milk diets. Reports have beers published concerning the various manifestations in the animals’ arid of the hematologic findings.2 This paper provides data on the vitamin Bn2 and folic acid compounds ins the liver, diets arid excreta of the experimental ansimals. These data are correlated with the findings iii the horse marrow and the effects...

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...

Scurvy: an unusual cause of anemia.

Nutritional deficiencies are a common cause of anemia. We describe a case of a schizophrenic patient with a rapidly declining hematocrit. The patient was a long-term inpatient at a psychiatric hospital. He was brought to the emergency department with acute anemia initially thought to be secondary to gastrointestinal bleeding. Other causes for his anemia were investigated when gastrointestinal b...