A Case of Pancytopenia Caused by an Unusual Habit of Eating Pasta

Pure nutritional deficiency of folate and vitamin B12 is very unusual in developed countries, where most of the food items are fortified with essential vitamins and minerals. We hereby present a case of a middle-aged lady who declined to eat any other food items and survived only on pasta and sea sa...

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Autores principales: Surani, Salim R, Sharma, Munish
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2019
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Hematology
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6886624/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31824795
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.6028
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description Pure nutritional deficiency of folate and vitamin B12 is very unusual in developed countries, where most of the food items are fortified with essential vitamins and minerals. We hereby present a case of a middle-aged lady who declined to eat any other food items and survived only on pasta and sea salt for two years before presenting to the emergency department with pancytopenia. 
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spelling pubmed-68866242019-12-10 A Case of Pancytopenia Caused by an Unusual Habit of Eating Pasta Surani, Salim R Sharma, Munish Cureus Hematology Pure nutritional deficiency of folate and vitamin B12 is very unusual in developed countries, where most of the food items are fortified with essential vitamins and minerals. We hereby present a case of a middle-aged lady who declined to eat any other food items and survived only on pasta and sea salt for two years before presenting to the emergency department with pancytopenia.  Cureus 2019-10-30 /pmc/articles/PMC6886624/ /pubmed/31824795 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.6028 Text en Copyright © 2019, Surani et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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