Megaloblastic anemia is no longer regarded as an uncommon complication of childbearing. A keen interest in this disorder has developed due to reports of increased incidence in the last decade (Giles and Shuttleworth, 1958; Ainley, 1961). Research has shown that most patients with megaloblastic bone marrow changes have either a low serum concentration of vitamin B12 or a low serum folate(1) activity, or both, which appear to be reasonably well correlated with the megaloblastic bone marrow changes (Lowenstein et al., 1962). [...]
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:LACETR/oai:collectionscanada.gc.ca:QMM.118068 |
| Date | January 1965 |
| Creators | Moscovitch, Lorna Frances. |
| Contributors | Neilson, H. (Supervisor) |
| Publisher | McGill University |
| Source Sets | Library and Archives Canada ETDs Repository / Centre d'archives des thèses électroniques de Bibliothèque et Archives Canada |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Electronic Thesis or Dissertation |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Coverage | Master of Science. (Department of Nutrition. ) |
| Rights | All items in eScholarship@McGill are protected by copyright with all rights reserved unless otherwise indicated. |
| Relation | alephsysno: NNNNNNNNN, Theses scanned by McGill Library. |
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