A woman with macrocytic anaemia and confusion

BMJ (Online)

Volumn 349, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Sugrue, Alan ^a   Egan, Aoife ^a   O'Regan, Anthony ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL GALWAY   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY; BILIRUBIN; CYANOCOBALAMIN; FERRITIN; FOLIC ACID; HAPTOGLOBIN; HEMOGLOBIN; INTRINSIC FACTOR; INTRINSIC FACTOR ANTIBODY; LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE; METFORMIN; PARIETAL CELL ANTIBODY; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AGED; ATAXIA; BILIRUBIN BLOOD LEVEL; BLOOD SMEAR; BONE MARROW BIOPSY; CASE REPORT; COMORBIDITY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONFUSION; CYANOCOBALAMIN DEFICIENCY; DIETARY INTAKE; DISEASE DURATION; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; ERYTHROCYTE COUNT; ESOPHAGOGASTRODUODENOSCOPY; FEMALE; FERRITIN BLOOD LEVEL; GAIT DISORDER; HEMOGLOBIN BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; LABORATORY TEST; LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE BLOOD LEVEL; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LEUKOCYTE STRUCTURE; LIVER FUNCTION TEST; LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; MACROCYTIC ANEMIA; MEAN CORPUSCULAR VOLUME; MEGALOBLASTIC ANEMIA; MINI MENTAL STATE EXAMINATION; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NEUTROPHIL COUNT; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; NOTE; OUTPATIENT CARE; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPRIOCEPTION; RETICULOCYTE COUNT; STOMACH BIOPSY; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; TREATMENT DURATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VERY ELDERLY; VITAMIN BLOOD LEVEL;

AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANEMIA, MACROCYTIC; CONFUSION; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPOGLYCEMIC AGENTS; METFORMIN; VITAMIN B 12 DEFICIENCY;

EID: 84903954682     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17561833     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.g4388     Document Type: Note

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