Vitamin B6 Deficiency Anemia Attributed to Levodopa/Carbidopa Intestinal Gel Therapy for Parkinson's Disease: A Diagnostic Pitfall for Myelodysplastic Syndrome with Ring Sideroblasts

Vitamin B6 (VB6) is essential to heme synthesis, and its deficiency can lead to anemia. VB6 deficiency anemia is typically microcytic, hypochromic, and sideroblastic. VB6 deficiency is a well-recognized complication of levodopa/carbidopa therapy, as metabolism of levodopa to dopamine is VB6-dependen...

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Autores principales: Yasuda, Hajime, Hatano, Taku, Honda, Tadahiro, Tsutsui, Miyuki, Hattori, Nobutaka, Ando, Miki, Komatsu, Norio
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Japanese Society of Internal Medicine 2022
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9841094/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35569990
http://dx.doi.org/10.2169/internalmedicine.9577-22

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