Megaloblastic Anaemia in Premature Infants
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- 31 January 1965
- journal article
- research article
- Published by BMJ in Archives of Disease in Childhood
- Vol. 40 (209) , 53-56
- https://doi.org/10.1136/adc.40.209.53
Abstract
Three premature babies developed megaloblastic anemia in the early days of life. They responded well to folic acid. It is thought that the chest infection that each had before the anemia exhausted the small folic acid reserves and was partly responsible for the anemia.Keywords
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