Megaloblastic Anemias: Nutritional and Other Causes

Medical Clinics of North America

Volumn 101, Issue 2, 2017, Pages 297-317

  Green, Ralph ^a   Datta Mitra, Ananya ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Anemia; Folate; Homocysteine; Megaloblastic; Methylmalonic acid; Pernicious anemia; Transcobalamin; Vitamin B12

Indexed keywords

CYANOCOBALAMIN; FOLIC ACID; HYDROXOCOBALAMIN; HYDROXYUREA; METHYLMALONIC ACID; TRIMETHOPRIM; ZIDOVUDINE;

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ACUTE LEUKEMIA; ACUTE MEGALOBLASTIC ANEMIA; ANEMIA; ATTENUATED MEGALOBLASTIC ANEMIA; BLOOD CELL COUNT; CELL METABOLISM; CHRONIC MYELOID LEUKEMIA; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONGENITAL DYSERYTHROPOIETIC ANEMIA; CYANOCOBALAMIN DEFICIENCY; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DNA SYNTHESIS; FOLIC ACID DEFICIENCY; GASTRECTOMY; GENETIC DISORDER; HELICOBACTER INFECTION; HEREDITARY INTRINSIC FACTOR DEFICIENCY; HOMOCYSTINURIA; HUMAN; HYPERCHLORHYDRIA; IMERSLUND GRAESBECK SYNDROME; INBORN ERROR OF METABOLISM; IRON DEFICIENCY ANEMIA; MALABSORPTION; MEGALOBLASTIC ANEMIA; METHYLMALONIC ACIDURIA; MICROCYTIC ANEMIA; MYELODYSPLASTIC SYNDROME; NUTRITIONAL DEFICIENCY; PARASITOSIS; PATHOGENESIS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PERNICIOUS ANEMIA; POLYCYTHEMIA VERA; PREVALENCE; PSORIASIS; REVIEW; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SICKLE CELL ANEMIA; SMALL INTESTINE DISEASE; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; THROMBOCYTHEMIA; VITAMIN BLOOD LEVEL; ANEMIA, MEGALOBLASTIC; COMORBIDITY; COMPLICATION; METABOLIC DISORDER; NUTRITIONAL DISORDER; VITAMIN B 12 DEFICIENCY;

ANEMIA, MEGALOBLASTIC; COMORBIDITY; FOLIC ACID DEFICIENCY; HUMANS; METABOLIC DISEASES; NUTRITION DISORDERS; PREVALENCE; VITAMIN B 12 DEFICIENCY;

EID: 85007518313     PISSN: 00257125     EISSN: 15579859     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mcna.2016.09.013     Document Type: Review

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