trichuriasis is an intestinal parasitic disease which is caused by trichuris trichiura, a soil transmitted helminth. in order to evaluate the iron status of trichuriasis in patients a total of 120 (49 males and 71 females) cases with trichuris trichiura as well as 54 healthy individuals were evaluated. blood samples were analyzed for serum iron, transferrin saturation percent, haemoglobin and o...

BACKGROUND AND AIMS Anaemia affects up to 74% patients with Crohn's disease (CD) and ulcerative colitis (UC) and is correlated with decreased quality of life. The European Crohn's and Colitis Organisation (ECCO) recommends at least annual screening for iron-deficiency anaemia. We aimed to determine the prevalence of anaemia, frequency of anaemia screening and factors associated with anaemia in ...

The iron status and feeding practices of 434 infants in Vancouver were determined at 39 +/- 1 week of age. Iron-deficiency anaemia (haemoglobin < or = 101 g/L, or < or = 110 g/L with two or three abnormal results from tests of serum ferritin, zinc erythrocyte protoporphyrin and total iron binding capacity) occurred in 7% of infants. Low iron stores (serum ferritin < 10 micrograms/l) occurred in...

Anaemia is common in advanced cancer, may develop for several reasons, and is not always symptomatic. Our observations of the seemingly indiscriminate prescription of iron-replacement therapy (IRT) for anaemic palliative care patients, and our practice of discontinuing IRT in patients with normal red-cell indices, prompted a study to determine (1) the prevalence of anaemia in our patients, (2) ...

In patients with iron-deficiency anaemia, acid secretion was found to be reduced and was associated with chronic gastritis (Davidson and Markson, 1955; Joske, Finckh, and Wood, 1955; Badenoch, Evans, and Richards, 1957; Lees and Rosenthal, 1958; Floch and Meroney, 1962; Bock, Richards, and Witts, 1963; Dagg, Goldberg, Anderson, Beck, and Gray, 1964; Ikkala and Siurala, 1964; Cowan, Joseph, and ...

Approximately one third of pregnant women in Vietnam have been previously estimated to be anaemic [1] . In this issue of Acta Haematologica , Siridamrongvattana et al. [4] report in a cross-sectional study of 399 women in the first trimester of pregnancy in central Vietnam that they found an unexpectedly low prevalence of anaemia (19.3%), iron deficiency (20.1%) and iron-deficiency anaemia (6%)...

Leucocyte ascorbic acid concentration declines with age. Patients with iron-deficiency anaemia have higher concentrations than normal while those with iron overload have a reduced concentration. It is suggested that these phenomena may be a result of reduced ascorbate catabolism in iron-deficiency anaemia and they provide support for the suggestion that the amount of iron in the tissues may be ...

A 38-day-old male warthog (Phacochoerus aethiopicus) with marked anaemia (haematocrit = 14 %) presented to the Denver Zoological Gardens hospital with ataxia, tachypnoea, suspected stunted growth and cardiomegaly. The piglet demonstrated some features consistent with both iron deficiency anaemia and autoimmune haemolytic anaemia. Serum-soluble iron was below the level of detection (< 8.96 micro...

The investigation of possible iron deficiency has changed in recent years. Traditionally, measurements of iron and iron binding capacity were performed by laboratories, but serum ferritin has now become established as a more reliable test for iron deficiency, although results in both situations can be influenced by the presence of acute or chronic inflammation. In populations in which the preva...

introduction: in the literature pica is reported to be prevalent in pregnant women, who, reported to have eaten substances that were clearly not foods but some thing which has been defined as “pica”. pica is an eating disorder, which may cause severe problems such as chemicals or heavy metals (e.g. lead) toxicity, intestinal obstruction and iron deficiency anaemia. this study was conducted to d...