Following acute arsenic ingestion, a 35 year old woman experienced multiple organ failure, including renal and respiratory insufficiency, toxic hepatitis, peripheral neuropathy, and encephalopathy. In addition, she developed an anemia; the bone marrow showed a striking dyserythropoiesis with megaloblastic features. Her recovery was heralded by normalization of the bone marrow morphology, follow...

INTRODUCTION Iron deficiency anemia is the leading cause of anemia worldwide. It may also be the leading cause of anemia in pregnancy, although this has not yet been demonstrated in our country. The aim of the study was to describe hematologic features of Cameroonian anemic pregnant women. METHODS This cross sectional analytical study was carried out in the maternity of the Yaoundé University...

OBJECTIVE The objective was to study megaloblastic anemia as a cause of pyrexia of unknown origin (PUO). MATERIALS AND METHODS We conducted a study on 15 patients of megaloblastic anemia associated with fever, attending our hospital clinics over a period of 6 months. RESULTS While 11 patients had symptoms suggesting foci of infection and responded well to intravenous antibiotics, 4 patients...

By FARm 1. FIAuRANI, GEORGE WANG AND L. M. T0cANrINs I HE COMMON types of megaloblastic anemias usually res1)ond well to vitamin B-12 or folic acid but there are some which respond incompletely or not at all to these antianemic agents. In 1936, Israel and \Vilkinson referred to these megaloblastic anemias which are refractory to liver extract as “Achrestic n1 ‘ Since then a number of cases have...

Megaloblastic anemias are a subgroup of macrocytic anemias, in which distinctive morphologic abnormalities occur in red cell precursors in bone marrow, namely megaloblastic erythropoiesis. Of the many causes of megaloblastic anemia, the most common are disorders resulting from cobalamin or folate deficiency. The clinical symptoms are weakness, fatigue, shortness of breath and neurologic abnorma...

Background: Megaloblastic anaemia is one of the frequently occurring diseases in a developing country such as India. anemia occurs mainly because vitamin B12 and folate deficiency. Proper clinical assessment megaloblastic very important for diagnosis treatment. Aim Objective: profile different age group, central Indian population. Material &Methods: A cross-sectional, observational study wa...