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Which statement best describes a schilling test?
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The Schilling test has multiple stages.[3] As noted below, it can be done at any time after vitamin B12supplementation and body store replacement, and some clinicians recommend that in severe deficiency cases, at least several weeks of vitamin repletion be done before the test (more than one B12 shot, and also oral folic acid), in order to ensure that impaired absorption of B12 (with or without intrinsic factor) is not occurring due to damage to the intestinal mucosa from the conditions of malabsorption arising from B12 and folate deficiency themselves.
Stage 1: oral vitamin B12 plus intramuscular vitamin B12 [edit]
In the first part of the test, the patient is given radiolabeled vitamin B12 to drink or eat. The most commonly used radiolabels are 57Co and 58Co. An intramuscular injection of unlabeled vitamin B12 is given an hour later. This is not enough to replete or saturate body stores of B12. The purpose of the single injection is to temporarily saturate B12 receptors in the liver with enough normal vitamin B12 to prevent radioactive vitamin B12 binding in body tissues (especially in the liver), so that if absorbed from the G. I. tract, it will pass into the urine. The patient's urine is then collected over the next 24 hours to assess the absorption.
Normally, the ingested radiolabeled vitamin B12 will be absorbed into the body. Since the body already has liver receptors for transcobalamin/vitamin B12 saturated by the injection, much of the ingested vitamin B12 will be excreted in the urine.
A normal result shows at least 10% of the radiolabeled vitamin B12 in the urine over the first 24 hours. In patients with pernicious anemia or with deficiency due to impaired absorption, less than 10% of the radiolabeled vitamin B12 is detected.
The normal test will result in a higher amount of the radiolabeled cobalamin in the urine because it would have been absorbed by the intestinal epithelium, but passed into the urine because all hepatic B12 receptors were occupied. An abnormal result is caused by less of the labeled cobalamin to appear in the urine because it will remain in the intestine and be passed into the feces.
Stage 2: vitamin B12 and intrinsic factor [edit]
If an abnormality is found, i. e. the B12 in the urine is only present in low levels, the test is repeated, this time with additional oral intrinsic factor.
If this second urine collection is normal, this shows a lack of intrinsic factor production. This is by definition pernicious anemia. A low result on the second test implies abnormal intestinal absorption (malabsorption), which could be caused by coeliac disease, biliary disease, Whipple's disease, small bowel bacterial overgrowth syndrome, fish tapeworm infestation (Diphyllobothrium latum), or liver disease. Malabsorption of B12 can be caused by intestinal dysfunction from a low vitamin level in-and-of-itself (see below), causing test result confusion if repletion has not been done for some days previously.
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