[Vitamin B12 levels in the serum in gastrectomized patients]. 1984

F Walter, and K Adler, and J Baumann, and D Sorger, and E Winkler

In 17 totally gastrectomised patients the vitamin B12-serum level was analyzed by 57Co-marked vitamin B12 according to the principle of competitive protein-bounding. Pathological low B12-serum levels in 10 patients refer to the lack of this vitamin. This, however, was only clinically manifested in one case by a megalocytic anaemia. The control of B12-serum levels by running substitution is only useful at the end of the interval between two injections. It is only at this time that it is a help in evaluating the effect of substitution. The monthly or 2-monthly vitamin B12-substitution should be preferred. No optimal substitutional effect can be achieved by injecting 1000 micrograms of vitamin B12 every three months.

UI MeSH Term Description Entries
D008286 Malabsorption Syndromes General term for a group of MALNUTRITION syndromes caused by failure of normal INTESTINAL ABSORPTION of nutrients. Malabsorption Syndrome,Syndrome, Malabsorption,Syndromes, Malabsorption
D005743 Gastrectomy Excision of the whole (total gastrectomy) or part (subtotal gastrectomy, partial gastrectomy, gastric resection) of the stomach. (Dorland, 28th ed) Gastrectomies
D006801 Humans Members of the species Homo sapiens. Homo sapiens,Man (Taxonomy),Human,Man, Modern,Modern Man
D014805 Vitamin B 12 A cobalt-containing coordination compound produced by intestinal micro-organisms and found also in soil and water. Higher plants do not concentrate vitamin B 12 from the soil and so are a poor source of the substance as compared with animal tissues. INTRINSIC FACTOR is important for the assimilation of vitamin B 12. Cobalamin,Cyanocobalamin,Cobalamins,Eritron,Vitamin B12,B 12, Vitamin,B12, Vitamin
D014806 Vitamin B 12 Deficiency A nutritional condition produced by a deficiency of VITAMIN B 12 in the diet, characterized by megaloblastic anemia. Since vitamin B 12 is not present in plants, humans have obtained their supply from animal products, from multivitamin supplements in the form of pills, and as additives to food preparations. A wide variety of neuropsychiatric abnormalities is also seen in vitamin B 12 deficiency and appears to be due to an undefined defect involving myelin synthesis. (From Cecil Textbook of Medicine, 19th ed, p848) Deficiency, Vitamin B 12,Deficiency, Vitamin B12,Vitamin B12 Deficiency,Deficiencies, Vitamin B12,Vitamin B12 Deficiencies

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