1. Pernicious anemia
Pernicious anemia is a decrease in red blood cells that occurs when the body cannot properly absorb vitamin B12 from the gastrointestinal tract. Vitamin B12 is necessary for the proper development of red blood cells.
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2. Pernicious Anemia
Pernicious anemia is a disease in which the red blood cells are abnormally formed, due to an inability to absorb vitamin B 12 . True pernicious anemia refers specifically to a disorder of atrophied parietal cells leading to absent...
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3. Anemia, Pernicious
Congenital Pernicious Anemia due to Defect of Intrinsic Factor; Gastric Intrinsic Factor, Failure of Secretion; Enterocyte Cobalamin Malabsorption; Enterocyte Intrinsic Factor Receptor, Defect of; Adult Onset Pernicious Anemia;
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4. Pernicious anemia: MedlinePlus Medical Encyclopedia
To absorb vitamin B12, your body uses a special protein called intrinsic factor, which is released by cells in the stomach. The combination of vitamin B12 bound to intrinsic factor is absorbed in the last part of the small intestine.
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5. Pernicious Anemia - Diabetes - Adult Type II - MedHelp
. About a year ago, I was found to have low B12 levels after a reoccurring case of Mono. B12 stayed low after treatment and would not stay at normal
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7. Pernicious anemia
juvenile pernicious anemia; deficiency - vitamin B12; vitamin B12 deficiency (malabsorption); Addison's anemia; anemia - pernicious; congenital pernicious anemia; combined...
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8. Pernicious Anemia
Anemia is a broad term for a group of diseases that are characterized by a decrease in hematocrit or hemglobin concentration among their many effects on the human body. This can be a result of decreased production or increased destruction of red b...
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9. Pernicious anemia
Pernicious anemia is a decrease in red blood cells that occurs when the body cannot properly absorb vitamin B12 from the gastrointestinal tract. Vitamin B12 is necessary for the proper development of red blood cells.
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10. Pernicious Anemia
Pernicious :: anemia develops when the body is unable to absorb the vitamin B12 it needs from food because of a lack of a protein, called intrinsic factor, produced by the stomach. Intrinsic factor is required for absorption of vitamin B12. Pernic...
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