Factors vary when checking thyroid levels
Pernicious anemia is a condition in which the body cannot absorb B-12 normally. Monthly injections often are used to treat this condition. However, daily oral B-12 supplements are just as effective for nearly everybody. Many of my own patients prefer …
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Why would vitamin B-12 sometimes not get absorbed?
Pernicious anemia is the most common cause. The name dates back many years to the time when there was no treatment for this type of anemia. Persons with it would become increasingly ill and die, often with severe neurological complications. It is now …
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Should Doctors Wait a Little Longer to Cut Umbilical Cords?
Dahlen points to a study from 2011 that found that babies whose doctors waited to cut the cord had lower rates of anemia in the days after birth. Four months later, those same infants had lower rates of iron deficiency. Another review study suggests …
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Therapy may curb kidney deterioration in patients with rare disorder
MMA patients also suffer from severe metabolic instability, failure to thrive, intellectual and physical disabilities, pancreatitis, anemia, seizures, vision loss and strokes. "There are no definitive treatments for the management of patients with MMA …
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Could sleeping stem cells hold key to treatment of aggressive blood cancer?
The result is that the body does not have enough red blood cells or platelet cells, which can cause symptoms of anemia, such as tiredness, and increase the risk of excessive bleeding. Patients are also more vulnerable to infection as the white blood …
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Iron-deficiency Anemia, Peripheral Blood Smear
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This is a trashy smear, but it does show an extremely advanced case of the microcytic/hypochromic anemia characteristic of iron deficiency. The mean corpuscular volume (MCV) was 55 fL (reference range: 80 – 94 fL).
