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Megaloblastic anaemia in one of monozygous twins breast fed by their vegetarian mother.

R C Gambon, M J Lentze, E Rossi.   

Abstract

Megaloblastic anaemia in infancy is uncommon in western countries. We describe a case of an exclusively breast-fed monozygous twin with severe vitamin B12 deficiency with haematologic and neurologic abnormalities. Treatment with vitamin B12 resulted in a rapid haematological and clinical improvement.

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Year:  1986        PMID: 3816865     DOI: 10.1007/bf02429070

Source DB:  PubMed          Journal:  Eur J Pediatr        ISSN: 0340-6199            Impact factor:   3.183


  8 in total

1.  Vitamin B12 deficiency in Indian infants. A clinical syndrome.

Authors:  M JADHAV; J K WEBB; S VAISHNAVA; S J BAKER
Journal:  Lancet       Date:  1962-11-03       Impact factor: 79.321

2.  [Considerations on 102 cases of perniciousform anemia in the infant, observed in the decade 1950-1959].

Authors:  F E FONTI
Journal:  Pediatria (Napoli)       Date:  1960-08-15

3.  Nutritional vitamin B12 deficiency in an infant.

Authors:  B C Lampkin; E F Saunders
Journal:  J Pediatr       Date:  1969-12       Impact factor: 4.406

4.  Nutritional vitamin B12 deficiency in infants.

Authors:  J R Davis; J Goldenring; B H Lubin
Journal:  Am J Dis Child       Date:  1981-06

5.  [Complication of a vegetarian diet in a breast-fed girl (author's transl)].

Authors:  J Lacroix; M A Macher; J Badoual; G Huault
Journal:  Arch Fr Pediatr       Date:  1981-04

6.  A syndrome of methylmalonic aciduria, homocystinuria, megaloblastic anemia and neurologic abnormalities in a vitamin B12-deficient breast-fed infant of a strict vegetarian.

Authors:  M C Higginbottom; L Sweetman; W L Nyhan
Journal:  N Engl J Med       Date:  1978-08-17       Impact factor: 91.245

7.  Brain damage in infancy and dietary vitamin B12 deficiency.

Authors:  M C Wighton; J I Manson; I Speed; E Robertson; E Chapman
Journal:  Med J Aust       Date:  1979-07-14       Impact factor: 7.738

8.  Vitamin B12 deficiency in a breastfed infant of a mother with pernicious anaemia.

Authors:  H Hoey; J C Linnell; V G Oberholzer; B M Laurance
Journal:  J R Soc Med       Date:  1982-08       Impact factor: 18.000

  8 in total
  3 in total

1.  Maternal vegan diet causing a serious infantile neurological disorder due to vitamin B12 deficiency.

Authors:  T Kühne; R Bubl; R Baumgartner
Journal:  Eur J Pediatr       Date:  1991-01       Impact factor: 3.183

Review 2.  Breast feeding twins and high multiples.

Authors:  O Flidel-Rimon; E S Shinwell
Journal:  Arch Dis Child Fetal Neonatal Ed       Date:  2006-09       Impact factor: 5.747

Review 3.  Effects of vitamin B12 and folate deficiency on brain development in children.

Authors:  Maureen M Black
Journal:  Food Nutr Bull       Date:  2008-06       Impact factor: 2.069

  3 in total

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