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CellWell record HH-432322

Severe Combined Vitamin B12 and Folate Deficiency Presenting With Features Suggestive of Hemolytic Anemia in Two Long-Term Proton Pump Inhibitor Users: A Case Report

Anupom Kanti Paul; Nirupa Mestry

2026

In plain language

In two middle-aged women on long-term proton pump inhibitors, combined vitamin B12 and folate deficiency mimicked hemolytic anemia with high LDH and low haptoglobin, and improved after vitamin replacement.

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