Autoimmune pernicious anaemia as a cause of collapse, heart failure and marked panyctopaenia in a young patient

BMJ Case Reports

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages

  Carey, Justin ^a   Hack, Ebru ^b  

^a Fremantle Hospital and Health Service   (Australia)

^b PRINCESS ALEXANDRA HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BILIRUBIN; CYANOCOBALAMIN; ESTRADIOL; ESTROGEN; FERRITIN; FOLIC ACID; FOLLITROPIN; HEMOGLOBIN; HYDROXOCOBALAMIN; INTRINSIC FACTOR ANTIBODY; LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; PARIETAL CELL ANTIBODY; PROLACTIN; PROTEIN ANTIBODY; TESTOSTERONE; THYROTROPIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; AMENORRHEA; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; BILIRUBIN BLOOD LEVEL; BONE MARROW BIOPSY; CASE REPORT; CELL VOLUME; CLINICAL FEATURE; COLLAPSE; CONJUNCTIVA; CYANOCOBALAMIN DEFICIENCY; FEMALE; FREE THYROXINE INDEX; HEART FAILURE; HEPATOMEGALY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPOTHYROIDISM; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; MEGALOBLASTIC ANEMIA; NEUTROPENIA; NEUTROPHIL COUNT; PALLOR; PANCYTOPENIA; PERNICIOUS ANEMIA; PREMATURE OVARIAN FAILURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETICULOCYTE COUNT; STOMATITIS; SYSTOLIC HEART MURMUR; THROMBOCYTE COUNT;

EID: 84863736756     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1757790X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bcr.01.2012.5576     Document Type: Article

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