Background: Erythropoietin (EPO) is a naturally occurring hormone, produced in the kidneys, which stimulates the body to produce more red blood cells. Our purpose was to investigate EPO, IL-4 levels, and hematologic parameters including total blood count, iron, total iron binding capacity, ferritin, transferring, vitamin B-12, folate levels in patients with Behçet’s disease (BD). Material and M...

Urinary ferritin levels were measured by a "2-site" immunoradiometric assay in normal volunteers and in patients with various hematologic disorders. The mean urinary ferritin concentration in normal subjects averaged 2.2 microgram/liter, only 3% of the serum ferritin level. Elevated urinary ferritin levels averaging 45 microgram/liter were observed in patients with hematologic malignancies, but...

Anemia is a condition in which the number of red blood cells (RBC) insufficient to meet body's physiological needs for oxygen transport. A limiting factor erythrocyte mass increase iron deficiency, can also have negative impact on pregnancy's prognosis. The most frequent pathogenic cause anemia pregnancy deficiency (IDA). Biochemical tests such as serum concentration, total binding capacity (TI...

The aim of this study was to assess the prevalence of iron deficiency and iron deficiency anemia in relation to variables such as: age, weight, height, mother s education, number of family members, and nutritional habits among female elementary school children (age 6-12 years) in the western province of Saudi Arabia. A total of 123 female children were selected for this study. Complete blood co...

PURPOSE We assessed the relationships between iron and vitamin D statuses in breastfed infants and their mothers and evaluated the determinants of iron and vitamin D deficiencies in breastfed infants. METHODS Seventy breastfed infants aged 4-24 months and their mothers participated in this study from February 2012 to May 2013. Complete blood counts, total iron binding capacity, and levels of ...

Objective: To evaluate carnitine serum levels as a comorbidity in children with iron deficiency anemia. Patients and Methods: Fifty-four well nourished children (29 boys and 25 girls) with iron deficiency anemia were enrolled. Twenty-five healthy non-anemic ageand sexmatched children were included as a control group. For all anemic children and controls, we performed complete blood cell count, ...

BACKGROUND Recently, hepcidin expression in adipose tissue has been described and shown to be increased in patients with severe obesity. We tried to assess the effect of obesity on hepcidin serum levels and treatment outcome of iron deficiency anemia in children. METHODS This was a case control study included 70 children with iron deficiency anemia "IDA" (35 obese and 35 non-obese) and 30 hea...

Background and Objectives: Complement proteins are some of the most important plasma proteins of the innate immune system. Impaired immune function is reported in subjects who are iron deficient, and there are documents that these patients are prone to infection. This study was conducted to show whether serum C3 and C4 complement change in adult nonpregnant female with iron deficient anemia or ...

helicobacter pylori is related to iron deficiency anemia (ida) and inflammatory responses causing gastric and duodenal ulcer and carcinoma. moreover, it leads to deficiency of factors associated with iron adsorption and transfer. in the present study, we recruited 100 children (50 infected with h. pylori and 50 controls) aged 3-14 years old (40% male and 60% female) to evaluate the effect of h....

BACKGROUND The ideal screening test would be capable of identifying iron deficiency in the absence of anemia. We tried to detect role of urinary hepcidin-25 level in early prediction of iron deficiency in children. METHODS This is a case control study performed on 100 children in Hematology Unit of Pediatric Department, Zagazig University Hospital, Egypt. Our study included 25 cases of iron d...