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[Post-gastrectomized vitamin B12 deficient anemia with marked leukoerythroblastosis and ringed sideroblasts].

Abstract
A 77 year-old man, who had received total gastrectomy and splenectomy 11 years ago for gastric cancer was transferred to our hospital because of severe macrocytic anemia. He had been treated with vitamin B1, B2, C and iron preparations for several weeks. Ten days before admission numbness developed in his legs. On physical examination he appeared severely anemic. Laboratory findings revealed severe macrocytic anemia with poikilocytosis, anisocytosis, polychromasia, red cell fragmentation, Howell-Jolly bodies, Cabot rings and marked erythroblastosis (421/100 WBC). Hypersegmented neutrophils and immature granulocytes were also seen in the blood. The bone marrow picture showed marked erythroid hyperplasia, but erythroblasts revealed only slight megaloblastic changes. On bone marrow iron staining all erythroblasts were classified as type III sideroblasts and 15% of them were ringed-form. Serum vitamin B12 was low (44 pg/ml). Methylcobalamin given intramuscularly led to the rapid improvement of all hematological abnormalities including leukoerythroblastosis. Two weeks after vitamin B12 administration, ringed sideroblasts could no longer be detected in the bone marrow. Post-gastrectomy vitamin B12 deficiency anemias combined with erythroblastosis and ringed sideroblasts is a rare condition. Splenectomy is thought to play an important role in the pathogenesis of these conditions.
AuthorsS Yoshimoto, M Takeuchi, A Tada, H Taguchi, T Manabe
Journal[Rinsho ketsueki] The Japanese journal of clinical hematology (Rinsho Ketsueki) Vol. 33 Issue 5 Pg. 688-93 (May 1992) ISSN: 0485-1439 [Print] Japan
PMID1630022 (Publication Type: Case Reports, English Abstract, Journal Article)
Topics
  • Aged
  • Anemia, Myelophthisic (complications)
  • Anemia, Pernicious (complications)
  • Anemia, Sideroblastic (blood, complications)
  • Erythrocytes, Abnormal (pathology)
  • Humans
  • Male
  • Postgastrectomy Syndromes (complications)
  • Vitamin B 12 Deficiency (complications)

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