An Exceedingly Rare Presentation of Severe Folate Deficiency-Induced Non-Immune Hemolytic Anemia

Macrocytic anemia is usually associated with vitamin B12 or folate deficiency. However, folate deficiency was rarely reported as a cause of hemolytic anemia. We present a case of a young man with a history of alcohol abuse who initially presented with an acute on chronic abdominal pain and was found...

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Autores principales: Zhang, Qian, Shan, Khine S, Ogunnaike, Babatunde A, Amewuame-Kpehor, Atsoufui, Nace, Travis
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2020
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Internal Medicine
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7358917/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32670706
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.8570
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author Zhang, Qian
Shan, Khine S
Ogunnaike, Babatunde A
Amewuame-Kpehor, Atsoufui
Nace, Travis
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Shan, Khine S
Ogunnaike, Babatunde A
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description Macrocytic anemia is usually associated with vitamin B12 or folate deficiency. However, folate deficiency was rarely reported as a cause of hemolytic anemia. We present a case of a young man with a history of alcohol abuse who initially presented with an acute on chronic abdominal pain and was found to have jaundice and scleral icterus. His liver enzymes were unremarkable, and his abdominal imaging did not reveal any acute pathology. However, he was found to have a severe non-immune hemolytic anemia secondary to folate deficiency.
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spelling pubmed-73589172020-07-14 An Exceedingly Rare Presentation of Severe Folate Deficiency-Induced Non-Immune Hemolytic Anemia Zhang, Qian Shan, Khine S Ogunnaike, Babatunde A Amewuame-Kpehor, Atsoufui Nace, Travis Cureus Internal Medicine Macrocytic anemia is usually associated with vitamin B12 or folate deficiency. However, folate deficiency was rarely reported as a cause of hemolytic anemia. We present a case of a young man with a history of alcohol abuse who initially presented with an acute on chronic abdominal pain and was found to have jaundice and scleral icterus. His liver enzymes were unremarkable, and his abdominal imaging did not reveal any acute pathology. However, he was found to have a severe non-immune hemolytic anemia secondary to folate deficiency. Cureus 2020-06-11 /pmc/articles/PMC7358917/ /pubmed/32670706 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.8570 Text en Copyright © 2020, Zhang 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.
spellingShingle Internal Medicine
Zhang, Qian
Shan, Khine S
Ogunnaike, Babatunde A
Amewuame-Kpehor, Atsoufui
Nace, Travis
An Exceedingly Rare Presentation of Severe Folate Deficiency-Induced Non-Immune Hemolytic Anemia
title An Exceedingly Rare Presentation of Severe Folate Deficiency-Induced Non-Immune Hemolytic Anemia
title_full An Exceedingly Rare Presentation of Severe Folate Deficiency-Induced Non-Immune Hemolytic Anemia
title_fullStr An Exceedingly Rare Presentation of Severe Folate Deficiency-Induced Non-Immune Hemolytic Anemia
title_full_unstemmed An Exceedingly Rare Presentation of Severe Folate Deficiency-Induced Non-Immune Hemolytic Anemia
title_short An Exceedingly Rare Presentation of Severe Folate Deficiency-Induced Non-Immune Hemolytic Anemia
title_sort exceedingly rare presentation of severe folate deficiency-induced non-immune hemolytic anemia
topic Internal Medicine
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7358917/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32670706
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.8570
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