Efficacy of short-term oral cobalamin therapy for the treatment of cobalamin deficiencies related to food-cobalamin malabsorption: A study of 30 patients

Clinical and Laboratory Haematology

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 161-166

  Andres E ^a,b   Kaltenbach, G ^a   Noel, E ^a   Noblet Dick, M ^a   Perrin, A E ^a   Vogel, T ^a   Schlienger, J L ^a   Berthel, M ^a   Blickle J F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF STRASBOURG   (France)

^b HÔPITAL CIVIL   (France)

Author keywords

Cobalamin deficiency; Food cobalamin malabsorption; Oral cyanocobalamin treatment

Indexed keywords

COBALAMIN; CYANOCOBALAMIN; HOMOCYSTEINE; PLACEBO;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD CELL COUNT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYSTALLIZATION; CYANOCOBALAMIN DEFICIENCY; DRUG EFFICACY; ERYTHROCYTE VOLUME; FEMALE; FOOD; HUMAN; MALABSORPTION; MALE; MEGALOCYTOSIS; OPEN STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETICULOCYTE COUNT; SERUM; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VITAMIN BLOOD LEVEL; VITAMIN METABOLISM;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BLOOD CELL COUNT; FEMALE; HEMOGLOBINS; HOMOCYSTEINE; HUMANS; MALABSORPTION SYNDROMES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VITAMIN B 12; VITAMIN B 12 DEFICIENCY;

EID: 0037899536     PISSN: 01419854     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2257.2003.00515.x     Document Type: Article

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