Macrocytosis: Symptoms, Complaints, Signs

The following symptoms and complaints may occur together with macrocytosis:

Leading symptom

  • Macrocytosis = occurrence of abnormally large erythrocytes (= macrocytes) whose mean corpuscular volume (MCV) is increased to more than 98 (100) femtoliters (fl) compared with normal.

Associated symptoms

  • Occurrence depending on the underlying disease (see below differential diagnoses).