Coexistent Pernicious Anemia and Malabsorption in Four Patients
Authors: EUGENE A. BRODY
Journal: Annals of Internal Medicine (1966)

Article1 June 1966Coexistent Pernicious Anemia and Malabsorption in Four PatientsIncluding One Whose Malabsorption Disappeared with Vitamin B12 TherapyEUGENE A. BRODY, M.D., SOLOMON ESTREN, M.D., F.A.C.P., VICTOR HERBERT, M.D.EUGENE A. BRODY, M.D.Search for more papers by this author, SOLOMON ESTREN, M.D., F.A.C.P.Search for more papers by this author, VICTOR HERBERT, M.D.Search for more papers by this authorAuthor, Article, and Disclosure Informationhttps://doi.org/10.7326/0003-4819-64-6-1246 SectionsAboutPDF ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack CitationsPermissions ShareFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail ExcerptEvaluation of patients with megaloblastic anemia due to vitamin B12deficiency includes absorption studies using radioactive labeled vitamin B12and intrinsic factor. These studies are performed not only to prove or disprove a vitamin B12absorptive defect but also to distinguish between gastric intrinsic factor lack and small bowel dysfunction as etiologies for this absorptive defect. Vitamin B12deficiency is generally regarded as due to either one of these two factors. This report presents three patients in whom pernicious anemia and small bowel lesions associated with small intestinal malabsorption of vitamin B12coexisted, and a fourth in whom pernicious anemia...References1. ROSS GI: Vitamin B12 assay in body fluids using Euglena gracilis. J. Clin. Path. 5: 250, 1952. CrossrefMedlineGoogle Scholar2. LAUGOTTLIEBWASSERMANHERBERT KSCLRV: Measurement of serum vitamin B12 level using radioisotope dilution and coated charcoal. Blood 26: 202, 1965. CrossrefMedlineGoogle Scholar3. HERBERT V: Aseptic addition method for Lactobacillus casei assay of folate activity in human serum. J. Clin. Path. 19: 12, 1966. CrossrefMedlineGoogle Scholar4. 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Author, Article, and Disclosure InformationAffiliations: New York, New YorkFrom the Department of Hematology, The Mount Sinai Hospital, New York, N. Y.This work was supported by research grants AM 09564 and AM 09062 from the National Institute of Arthritis and Metabolic Diseases, the National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Md., research grant FR-71 from the Division of Research Facilities and Resources, the U. S. Public Health Service, Washington, D. C., and grants from the Albert A. List, Frederick Machlin, and Anna Ruth Lowenberg Funds (of the Mount Sinai Hospital).Dr. Herbert is the recipient of Career Scientist Award I-435 from the Health Research Council of the City of New York.This paper was presented in part before the open program of the Committee of the American Society of Hematology on Vitamin B12 and Folic Acid, at the Eighth Annual Meeting of the American Society of Hematology, Philadelphia, Pa., December 5, 1965.Requests for reprints should be addressed to Eugene A. 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