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Food Cobalamin Malabsorption Occurs Frequently in Patients With Unexplained Low Serum Cobalamin Levels
Ralph Carmel, MD;
Robert M. Sinow, MD;
Michael E. Siegel, MD;
I. Michael Samloff, MD
Arch Intern Med. 1988;148(8):1715-1719.
Abstract
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• Malabsorption of food-bound or protein-bound cobalamin with normal absorption of free cobalamin has been described in studies of patients with gastric dysfunction. We used the egg-yolk cobalamin absorption test to study 47 patients selected not because of known gastric disorders but because they had low serum cobalamin levels with normal Schilling test results. Their egg test results were significantly lower than in normal controls, while Schilling test results were normal. Twenty of the subjects had egg test excretion below 1.5%. No features distinguished them from the 27 who excreted more than 1.5% other than the presence of lower pepsinogen I:II ratios. Eight of 19 tested patients with food cobalamin malabsorption had no evidence of abnormal gastric status by blood tests and/or gastric analysis. Also noteworthy was the finding of food cobalamin malabsorption in 60% of tested patients who had neurologic, cerebral, or psychiatric abnormalities. Food cobalamin malabsorption appears to be associated frequently with otherwise unexplained low cobalamin levels. Low cobalamin levels in patients with normal Schilling test results cannot be dismissed as insignificant without also testing for food cobalamin malabsorption, whether or not the patients have known gastric dysfunction.
(Arch Intern Med 1988;148:1715-1719)
Author Affiliations
From the Departments of Medicine and Pathology (Dr Carmel) and the Division of Nuclear Medicine, Department of Radiology (Drs Sinow and Siegel), University of Southern California School of Medicine and the Los Angeles County—University of Southern California Medical Center, Los Angeles, and the Department of Medicine, Veterans Administration Medical Center, Sepulveda, Calif (Dr Samloff).
Footnotes
Accepted for publication March 30, 1988.
Presented in part at the 32nd Annual Meeting of the Society of Nuclear Medicine, Houston, June 3, 1985 (JNucl Med 1985;26:P96).
Reprint requests to RMR 306, University of Southern California School of Medicine, 2025 Zonal Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90033 (Dr Carmel).
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