Hypoplastic Anæmia in Infancy

Anæmia in Infancy: Its Prevalence and Prevention.

The remarkable prevalence and the ill-effects of anaemia among London infants have been demonstrated by the following investigation, which also indlicates a simple and efficacious method of prophylaxis. Fairly large groups of artificially fed infant out-patients were observe(d for varying periods extending from October, 1925 to December, 1927. These infants were usually subnormal in health,. bu...

Copper in the Treatment of Nutritional Anæmia in Infancy.

Ample evidence now exists to show that the nutritional anawmia, or milk anaemia, of babies bears a very close resemblance to the milk aneemia of rats, but whereas young rats in whom anwemia is induced by prolonged milk feeding suffer from a deficiency of copper as well as of iron, and require both copper and iron for their cure4, it is not yet proven that copper deficiency plays any part in the...

Chronic hypoplastic anaemia arising in infancy.

An aplasia of the erythroblastic tissue in the bone marrow, without involvement of either leucocytes or platelets, is referred to by Whitby and Britton (1946) as a medical curiosity. This aplasia may be complete or partial. If complete, there is no formation of normal red-cell precursors. Strictly speaking, the term 'aplastic anaia ' should be reserved for cases of this kind, where there is a p...

Anæmia and Liver Therapy in Infancy and Childhood.

Hypoplastic anaemia in infancy and childhood: erythroid hypoplasia.

In 1936, Josephs reported 'a hypoplastic or aplastic type of anaemia confined to a failure of erythropoiesis' in two children. Diamond and Blackfan (1938) gave a more detailed description of the disorder in four children, and emphasized the features of a chronic progressive anaemia beginning early in infancy, with a tendency to moderate depression of the leucocyte and thrombocyte counts, and se...