Erythrokinetics in pernicious anemia.

A correlative study of the erythrokinetics and disturbances in iron metabolism associated with the anemia of rheumatoid arthritis.

Subacute combined degeneration : report of two cases

Subacute combined degeneration ( SCD) due to vitamin B12 deficiency is common in North of Europe but sometimes it is seen in Iran. It can develop before the symptoms of anemia is obvious, with myelin injury and then axon and even neuron destruction in spinal cord, brain, optic and peripheral nerves. In this study two cases are reported; in the first patient, this disease in manifested by vitami...

Discordant occurrence of pernicious anemia in identical twins.

H EREDITY has been considered to be a major pathogenic factor in the development of pernicious anemia.’4 The present study emphasizes that occurrence of pernicious anemia does not depend entirely on inherited factors. Identical twins ,one of whom had pernicious anemia while the other did not, are reported. In contrast to the two previous reports of discordant pernicious anemia,5’6 the present o...

Association pernicious anemia and autoimmune polyendocrinopathy: a retrospective study

OBJECTIVE To investigate the association between pernicious anemia and other autoimmune diseases. METHODS This retrospective and bicentric study was conducted at Reims and Strasbourg University Hospitals and involved 188 patients with pernicious anemia examined between 2000 and 2010 in order to search for other autoimmune diseases and to evaluate the role of pernicious anemia in autoimmune po...

Pernicious anemia, vitiligo, and infertility.

Though rarely encountered in women of childbearing age, untreated pernicious anemia has been found to be a cause of infertility. Once treated, conception often occurs within months. The case presented here is a woman who had a restoration of fertility after initiation of vitamin B12 treatment for vitiligo-associated pernicious anemia. Previous reports have shown the occurrence of pregnancy in t...