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Vitamin B12 deficiency misdiagnosed as TTP: What can we learn from it?

Bernhard LämmleAlexander Laemmle
Published in: British journal of haematology (2024)
The case report by Dwyre et al. shows that vitamin B12 deficiency may be misdiagnosed as acute thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura. Together with similar observations, this underlines that acquired vitamin B12 deficiency-besides the inherited disorder of intracellular cobalamin metabolism, cbl C disease-should be listed as a separate entity of the thrombotic microangiopathies. Commentary on: Dwyre et al. Microangiopathic thrombocytopenia caused by vitamin B12 deficiency responding to plasma exchange. Br J Haematol 2024 (Online ahead of print). doi: 10.1111/bjh.19625.
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