Sentences with phrase «by cobalamin»
Recommended Test: Ask for B12 by name or by cobalamin.
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This hypothesis was confirmed by several more recent trials with sublingual or oral doses of cobalamin between 1000 and 5000 µg.»
These patients may be identified on basis of abnormalities in serum folate and / or cobalamin concentrations, a positive hydrogen breath test, or by culture of duodenal juice aspirated in the course of other investigations.
Demonstration of low serum cobalamin is the more useful finding, since it is less influenced by diet and coprophagia and appears to relate more to the severity of clinical disease
In humans with blind intestinal loops constructed by radical bypass surgery, there is good evidence for numbers as high as 1012 cfu / mL, and clinical consequences (eg, diarrhea, raised serum folate, low serum cobalamin) are well documented.
Intrinsic factor (IF), a cobalamin binding protein that promotes cobalamin absorption in the ileum, is produced by the stomach and pancreas in dogs.
The presence of an abnormal flora can not be predicted accurately by measuring serum concentrations of cobalamin and folate, so a trial with an antibiotic such as oxytetracycline (20 mg / kg PO TID 28d), ortylosin (10 mg / kg PO TID) can be undertaken.
Subnormal serum concentrations of cobalamin are frequently documented (approximately 75 % of cases) in dogs with EPI and are likely a consequence of intrinsic factor deficiency, disrupted binding of cobalamin to IF (by intestinal pH, lack of proteases) and bacterial consumption of cobalamin (Batt et al 1989; Simpson et al 1989a; Simpson et al 1993).
In the USA, Wonderlabs Pet Factor B12 https://www.wonderlabs.com/itemleft.php?itemnum=K9688 or Wonderlabs Trinfac B https://www.wonderlabs.com/itemleft.php?itemnum=6881 are products widely used (with great success supported by before and after Cobalamin blood tests) by many EPI pets with low B12.