Scurvy: an unusual cause of anemia.

Megaloblastic anaemia associated with adult scurvy.

Nowadays scurvy is fortunately rare. Cases are still found among the inmates of common lodging houses and those living alone, where age, decrepitude, or apathy may have led to an inadequate dietary intake. Rigid dieting as in peptic ulcer' may be an unusual cause. While the blood picture may show little change in the milder cases, anaemia of variable degree occurs in most adults with scurvy. It...

Unusual presentation of a patient with hemoglobin Constant Spring and immune hemolytic anemia

Abstract   Introduction: Hemoglobin Constant Spring (Hb CS),  a abnormal Hb characterized by elongated α-globin chain resulting from mutations of the termination codon in the α2 - globin gene , is the most common nondelitional  α-thalassemic mutation and is an important cause of HbH like disease in Southeast Asia. Case Report: A 9- years-old female with immune hemolytic anemia and splenomegally...

Fanconi Anemia Concurrent with an Unusual Thumb Polydactyly: A Case Report

  This case report presents a case of Fanconi’s Anemia with an unusual thumb polydactyly in a 2-year old boy. The extra thumb had no nail, nail bed and distal phalanx. The extra thumb had no active motion.The duplication of the thumb occurred at the carpometacarpal joint but its morphology did not match with any classification described for thumb polydactyly. Although his thumb polydactyly was ...

Homozygous delta-beta Thalassemia in a Child: a Rare Cause of Elevated Fetal Hemoglobin

Abstract Background Delta beta (δβ) thalassemia is an unusual variant of thalassemia with elevated level of fetal hemoglobin (HbF). Homozygous patients of this disorder, unlike β-thalassemia, show mild anemia. Only few cases of δβ-thalassemia have been reported from India in the available indexed English literature. Case presentation A four-year old male child was evaluated for recent-onset...

Experimental nutritional megaloblastic anemia and scurvy in the monkey. III. Protoporphyrin, coproporphyrin, urobilinogen and iron in blood and excreta.