1. Iron deficiency and pernicious anemia: a rare association?
- Author
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Abrar-Ahmad Zulfiqar, Jean-Luc Novella, Moustapha Dramé, Emmanuel Andrès, Thomas Vogel, and Jean-Loup Pennaforte
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Adult ,Male ,medicine.medical_specialty ,Anemia ,Achlorhydria ,Gastroenterology ,Internal medicine ,Anemia, Pernicious ,Prevalence ,medicine ,Humans ,Vitamin B12 ,Mean corpuscular volume ,Aged ,Retrospective Studies ,pernicious anemia ,Aged, 80 and over ,Anemia, Iron-Deficiency ,biology ,medicine.diagnostic_test ,business.industry ,Microcytosis ,General Medicine ,Iron deficiency ,Middle Aged ,medicine.disease ,Ferritin ,biology.protein ,Female ,business - Abstract
The aim of this study was to determine the prevalence of iron deficiency among patients with pernicious anemia. We realized a retrospective study from 2000 to 2010 including 55 patients suffering from pernicious anemia who were followed in Reims and Strasbourg university hospitals. Inclusion criteria were histological diagnosis of immune atrophic fundic gastritis and criteria of gastric autoimmuninty, and for which ferritin was measured. Iron deficiency is defined as serum ferritin level
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- 2015