Prevalence of
cobalamin deficiency in the Framingham elderly population.
Neuropsychiatric disorders caused by
cobalamin deficiency in the absence of anaemia or macrocytosis.
Cobalamin deficiency: clinical picture and radiological findings.
Iron, Folate and
cobalamin deficiency in anaemic pregnant females in tertiary care at Rawalpindi.
In the mother classical
cobalamin deficiency features may be produced including macrocytic red blood cells with or without anaemia, ovalocytosis, hyper segmented white blood cells, pancytopenia, atrophic glossitis, stomatitis, malabsorption due to villi atrophy and mucositis (Rush et al., 2014).
Neuropsychiatry disorders caused by
cobalamin deficiency in the absence of anemia or macrocytosis.
Hyperhomocysteinemia and elevated methylmalonic acid indicate a high prevalence of
cobalamin deficiency in Asian Indians.
Neurologic aspects of
cobalamin deficiency. Medicine (Baltimore) 1991; 70:229-45.
Polyneuropathy secondary to pure
cobalamin deficiency is a more controversial entity.
The prevalence of folate and
cobalamin deficiency during pregnancy is relatively high in some countries of Sub-Saharan Africa, northern Europe and in Brazil [5-8].
This report presents a case of
cobalamin deficiency induced TMA in a patient initially suspected of having TTP, with important implications for the work-up and treatment of patients with suspected TTP.