B12 injections are clinically indicated for patients with confirmed deficiency or malabsorption conditions, including those with pernicious anaemia, gastrectomy, ileal resection, Crohn's disease, or neurological symptoms related to B12 deficiency
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Mechanisms of hemolysis in patients with vitamin B12 deficiency are not entirely understood, it is believed that the hemolysis results from intramedullary destruction as well as from pseudo-thrombotic microangiopathy (TMA) that accompanies vitamin B12 deficiency.[5,6] The patient reported here had severe microangiopathic hemolysis as evidenced by the very low levels of serum haptoglobin, with elevated LDH and indirect hyperbilirubinemia as well as the presence of schistocytes in the peripheral blood smears
Markedly, multiple organ lesions in the heart, lung, liver, kidney, and gastrointestinal tract, in particular, as well as brain lesions, were attenuated, and oxidative stress was reduced in tissues (Vukojevic et al., 2018
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