First to speak was Betty Ritson, a patient of Dr. Chandy, a general practitioner who has found previously undiagnosed vitamin B12 deficiency in hundreds of people over the last 25 years. According to the family doctor, vitamin B12 deficiency may affect up to 12 per cent of the UK population...
The patient was started on prednisone and vitamin B12 supplements with improvement of his complaints and vitamin B12 levels. Sarcoidosis can manifest in many extrapulmonary organs, including the gastrointestinal tract, resulting in nutritional deficiencies, such as vitamin B12 deficie...
In many cases this is not enough to maintain the patient in good health, yet the medical profession still refuse to acknowledge symptoms are life threatening. B12 deficiency is very common. B12 deficiency is not rare. B12 deficiency needs to be treated with the seriousness it deserves. This ...
Vitamin B12 deficiency as a cause of delirium in a patient with spinal cord injury. A man with spinal cord injury (SCI) and multiple medical comorbidities had new-onset delirium during his 14th month of hospitalization. Diagnostic workup did not elicit an obvious etiology for mental status ...
To explore the prevalence of vitamin B12 deficiency in older hospitalized adults and identify key factors associated with this deficiency, as well as its i
The various haematological, neurological and psychiatric manifestations of vitamin B12 deficiency are well documented. However, the clinical effects of folate deficiency are much more obscure. They are thought to include megaloblastic anaemia, a neurolog
The objectives of the study was to determine the folate statusin patient with chronic disease in Khartoum, Sudan and to correlatethis alteration with disease pattern or mechanisms.They will getbenefits from folate suplementaion as recomended.This is a prospective case control study conducted at the ...
Rajsekhar P, Reddy MM, Vaddera S, Rajini G, Tikeli V. A rare case of vitamin B12 deficiency with ascites. J Clin Diagn Res. 2014;8(7):MD01-2. Mirijello A, Vallone C, De cosmo S, Landolfi R, Addolorato G. Chronic diarrhea in a patient with s...
et al. Cobalamin deficiency with megaloblastic anaemia in one patient under long-term omeprazole therapy. J. Intern. Med. 240, 161–164 (1996). Google Scholar Lam, J. R. et al. Proton pump inhibitor and histamine 2 receptor antagonist use and vitamin B12 deficiency. JAMA 310, 2435–2442...
Bellou, A.et al. Cobalamin deficiency with megaloblastic anaemia in one patient under long-term omeprazole therapy.J. Intern. Med.240, 161–164 (1996). Google Scholar Lam, J. R.et al. Proton pump inhibitor and histamine 2 receptor antagonist use and vitamin B12 deficiency.JAMA310, 2435–24...