Deficiencies due to malabsorption: if severe, may need to treat like pernicious anemia; use oral preparations for chronic treatment. Schilling test: 1000mcg. Hereditary optic nerve atrophy (Leber ...

It is likely that the effect of steroids in pernicious anemia is due to a suppression ... At intervals throughout the study tests of vitamin B 12 absorption were carried out, serum was obtained ...

The untreated patients had classic manifestations of the disease, which included a macrocytic anemia, megaloblastic ... during performance of the Schilling test. The effect of the flushing dose ...