Folic Acid Deficiency Anemia : Complications
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Symptoms of anemia can cause discomfort. In a pregnant woman, folate deficiency has been associated with neural tube or spinal defects (such as spina bifida) in the infant.
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Although adequate folic acid intake usually cures this condition in about three weeks, folic acid deficiency anemia can make patients infertile or more susceptible to infection. Severe deficiencies can result in congestive heart failure.
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Heart failure, also called congestive heart failure, is a disorder in which the heart loses its ability to pump blood efficiently. The term "heart failure" should not be confused with cardiac arrest, a situation in which the heart actually stops beating.
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Heart failure can happen in two ways. The heart muscle may become weak and enlarged (systolic dysfunction). The weakened muscle doesn’t pump enough blood forward when the ventricles contract. Or, the heart muscle may become stiff (diastolic dysfunction). The stiff muscle can’t relax between contractions, which keeps the ventricles from filling with enough blood.
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Infertility is the inability to achieve a pregnancy after 12 months of unprotected intercourse.
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Infertility is the failure of a couple to conceive a pregnancy after trying to do so for at least one full year. In primary infertility, pregnancy has never occurred.
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Infertility is the failure of a couple to conceive a pregnancy after trying to do so for at least one full year. In primary infertility, pregnancy has never occurred.
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Infertility is the failure to conceive a pregnancy after attempting for at least one full year. In primary infertility, pregnancy has never occurred.
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Neural tube defects are a group of severe birth defects in which the brain and spinal cord are malformed and lack the protective skeletal and soft tissue encasement. Incomplete formation and protection of the brain or spinal cord with bony and soft tissue coverings during the fourth week of embryo formation are known collectively as neural tube defects.
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Neural tube defects are a group of severe birth defects in which the brain and spinal cord are malformed and lack the protective skeletal and soft tissue encasement. Incomplete formation and protection of the brain or spinal cord with bony and soft tissue coverings during the fourth week of embryo formation are known collectively as neural tube defects.
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Neural tube defects, or NTDs, are a group of severe birth defects in which the brain and spinal cord are malformed and lack the protective encasement of soft tissue and bone. They are called neural tube defects because they develop out of a tube formed in the early embryo by the closure of the outer germ layer of tissue.
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