Vitamin B 12 Deficiency - Drug therapy
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Saturday, March 20, 2010

[Severe vitamin B12 deficiency in infants breastfed by vegans]

17 Oct 2009 Weight loss and reduction of motor skills resulted in paediatric evaluation of a 10-month-old girl and a 12-month-old boy. Both children suffered form anaemia and delayed development due to vitamin B12 deficiency caused by strict maternal vegan diet ... Read more...

Paralysis and pernicious anemia in a young woman.

29 Jun 2009 Vitamin B12 is important for normal nervous system functioning, and deficiencies are associated with various neurological abnormalities. We present a case of an 18-year-old woman who presented with significant neurological sequelae, but only mild ... Read more...

[Megaloblastic-vitamin B12 deficiency anemia in childhood]

29 Apr 2009 Megaloblastic anemias are basically caused by vitamin B(12) and/or folic acid deficiency. Childhood vitamin B(12) deficiency is extremely rare. There are congenital and acquired forms of vitamin B(12)-deficiency anemias. The article captures ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Vitamin B 12 Deficiency - Drug therapy'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• [Severe vitamin B12 deficiency in infants breastfed by vegans] 17 Oct 2009
• Paralysis and pernicious anemia in a young woman. 29 Jun 2009
• [Megaloblastic-vitamin B12 deficiency anemia in childhood] 29 Apr 2009
• Studies of biomarker responses to intervention with vitamin B-12: a systematic review of randomized controlled trials. 27 Apr 2009
• The multi-faceted basis of vitamin B12 (cobalamin) neurotrophism in adult central nervous system: Lessons learned from its deficiency. 22 Apr 2009
• [Encephalomyelopathy due to vitamin B12 deficiency with seizures as a predominant symptom] 30 Mar 2009
• Maternal vitamin B12 status and risk of neural tube defects in a population with high neural tube defect prevalence and no folic Acid fortification. 27 Feb 2009
• Oral or intramuscular vitamin B12? 30 Jan 2009
• Vitamin B12 absorption and metabolism in milk-fed lambs. 30 Jan 2009
• Bladder dysfunction in subacute combined degeneration: a clinical, MRI and urodynamic study. 19 Jan 2009
• [Cobalamin deficiency: neurological aspects in 27 cases] Dec 2008
• Masked vitamin B12 deficiency anemia as if it was haemolytic anemia. 29 Nov 2008
• Oral cobalamin (vitamin B(12)) treatment. An update. 17 Nov 2008
• [Food-cobalamin syndrome] 3 Nov 2008
• Cognitive and psychiatric effects of vitamin B12 replacement in dementia with low serum B12 levels: a nursing home study. 15 Oct 2008
• Clinical manifestations of infants with nutritional vitamin B deficiency due to maternal dietary deficiency. 4 Oct 2008
• Vitamin B12 intake after restorative proctocolectomy. 30 Aug 2008
• Neurological consequences of vitamin B12 deficiency and its treatment. 30 Jul 2008
• Swallow your pride. 29 Jun 2008
• Recurrent reversible jaundice, neuropsychiatric manifestations, dementia and ataxia as manifestations of vit. B12 deficiency. 30 May 2008

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Technical information about 'Vitamin B 12 Deficiency'

Definition: A nutritional condition produced by a deficiency of VITAMIN B 12 in the diet, characterized by megaloblastic anemia. Since vitamin B 12 is not present in plants, humans have obtained their supply from animal products, from multivitamin supplements in the form of pills, and as additives to food preparations. A wide variety of neuropsychiatric abnormalities is also seen in vitamin B 12 deficiency and appears to be due to an undefined defect involving myelin synthesis. (From Cecil Textbook of Medicine, 19th ed, p848)

Descriptor UI: D014806

Alternative terms: Vitamin B 12 Deficiency; Vitamin B12 Deficiency; Deficiency, Vitamin B12; Deficiencies, Vitamin B12; Vitamin B12 Deficiencies; Deficiency, Vitamin B 12;

Allowable Qualifiers: blood; cerebrospinal fluid; chemically induced; classification; complications; congenital; diagnosis; diet therapy; drug therapy; economics; embryology; enzymology; ethnology; etiology; genetics; history; immunology; metabolism; microbiology; mortality; nursing; epidemiology; parasitology; pathology; physiopathology; prevention & control; psychology; radiography; radionuclide imaging; radiotherapy; rehabilitation; surgery; therapy; urine; veterinary; ultrasonography; virology;

Tree Number: C18.654.521.500.133.699.923;

Technical Notes: coord IM with specific B 12 vitamin /defic (IM); DF: VITAMIN B 12 DEFIC