KROK 1 2015 – Question 164 · KROK (Medicine) · Pathophysiology
A patient is diagnosed with chronic atrophic gastritis attended by deficiency of Castle’s intrinsic factor. What type of anemia does the patient have?
- A. Hemolytic anemia
- B. Protein-deficiency anemia
- C. B12-deficiency anemia
- D. Iron refractory anemia
- E. Iron-deficiency anemia
Hint
Ask what intrinsic factor is needed for, where in the gut that happens, and what the developing red cells lack when it fails.
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