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27 June, 23:59

A 58-year-old female presents in the clinic with complaints of fatigue, weight loss, and tingling in her fingers. Laboratory findings show a low hemoglobin and hematocrit, a high mean corpuscular volume, and normal plasma iron. These findings are consistent with which type of anemia?

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  1. 28 June, 03:53
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    Pernicious anemia.

    Explanation:

    Pernicious anemia is usually caused due to the deficiency of Vitamin B-12 in the body or absence of Intrinsic factor in the digestive system that lowers the uptake of vitamin B-12.

    Due to lack of Vitamin B-12 in the body the nucleated megaloblasts do not mature into non-nucleated RBCs and flow into the blood vessels.

    This results in low hemoglobin levels, fatigue, weight loss etc as common symptoms.
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