Anaemia during critical illness.

Anaemia of critical illness-- implications for understanding and treating rHuEPO resistance.

The prospect of a shortage of blood for transfusions, increasing awareness of the adverse effects of transfusions, and the availability of human recombinant erythropoietin (rHuEPO) have stimulated interest in the pathogenesis of the anaemia of intensive care unit (ICU) patients. As in the anaemia of chronic illness or chronic renal failure (CRF), the anaemia of ICU patients is a multifactorial ...

Chicken infectious anaemia virus infection among broiler chicken flocks in Iran

Chicken infectious anaemia is a viral disease in young chickens which characterized by aplastic anaemia and immunosuppression. Between January 2004 and July 2005, an unusual hemorrhage in subcutaneous and intramuscular tissues of broiler chickens at slaughter houses of Mashhad, Isfahan and Tehran provinces were occurred. Postmortem examination revealed severe hemorrhages in the wings and muscle...

Role of iron in anaemic critically ill patients: it's time to investigate!

Anaemia is a common problem in critically ill patients admitted to intensive care units. Many factors can be involved in its development, including rapid alterations of iron metabolism. Maintenance of iron homeostasis is a prerequisite for many essential biological processes and a central element for the development of erythroid precursors and mature red blood cells. With the inflammatory proce...

Guidelines on the management of anaemia and red cell transfusion in adult critically ill patients.

On the Course of Pernicious Anæmia in Older Persons

In a disease like pernicious anaemia, which after all is not very common, it is difficult for one observer to get a sufficient number of examples from which to draw any general conclusions from his personal observations. Moreover, in hospital work, the opportunity to follow the course of a chronic disease for any considerable time is rare, and especially so in pernicious anaemia, in which the c...