BACKGROUND Anemia due to hematinic deficiencies is common in patients with untreated celiac disease. Although celiac disease is a chronic condition characterized by an intense inflammatory response of the intestinal mucosa, scant data are available about the prevalence of anemia of chronic disease in celiac disease. DESIGN AND METHODS One hundred and fifty-two patients with celiac disease at ...

Original Article Aims: To know the distribution and severity of anemia in different age groups in rural south India. To know the morphological pattern of anemia in all age groups and To know the red cell parameters in elderly patients with anemia. Material & methods: A prospective study was conducted by taking two hundred anemic patients. They were divided into four groups (pediatric, adult mal...

BACKGROUND Anemia is a global public health problem but the burden of anemia is disproportionately borne among children in developing countries. Anemia in early stages of life has serious consequences on the growth and development of the children. We examine the prevalence of anemia, possible association between anemia and different socio-economic, demographic, health and other factors among ch...

Background: When it comes to the treatment of aplastic anemia fever, Guidelines for Aplastic Anemia regards Anti-thymocyte globulin (ATG) combined with eltrombopag as standard immunosuppressive plan, and ATG is main mode treat severe anemia. A large number prospective studies clinical trials have confirmed application value in Although brings satisfactory results, safety long-term use still unc...

We have shown previously that the cause of anemia in healthy elderly subjects can usually not be identified. In this study. hematopoiesis was examined in 1 8 healthy elderly subjects with unexplained anemia and in 1 5 young and 15 healthy elderly individuals without anemia. No reduction in circulating testosterone was noted, making decreased androgen levels as a cause for the anemia unlikely. T...

Drug induced autoimmune hemolytic anemia is a well-known complication of drug therapy but it is often misdiagnosed. Drug induced autoimmune hemolytic anemia is difficult to differantiate from classical autoimmune hemolytic anemia. Here, we have reported a case with autoimmune hemolytic anemia might be caused by drugs such as teicoplanin, imipenem and amphotericin B. In our case, on the fifteent...

Anemia is one of the most common manifestations of malaria. The causative mechanisms are multifactorial, and the severity of the anemia varies in relation to the level of malaria transmission in a population. The anemia of acute malaria in nonimmune individuals is usually normocytic and presents no special morphologic features; however, in malaria endemic areas subjects frequently have multiple...

The aim of this study was to determine the prevalence of anemia and evaluate the relationship of malaria and helminth infections on anemia status in Phan Tien village, a mountainous ethnic minority community in southern Vietnam. This longitudinal study was performed from April 1997 to 2000 by measuring the hemoglobin concentration of 2,767 people who participated in six annual surveys at the en...