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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Essence Hinton

1 May, 20:23

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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Keith Callahan · Answer 1

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.