Material and Methods: HbA1C levels of 120 non-diabetic hypothyroid patients (30 microcytic hypochromic anaemia, 30 normocytic normochromic anaemia and 60 non anemic patients) with 120 age, sex, plasma glucose levels and anaemia status matched controls were assessed. Anaemia status was determined by ferritin, Haemoglobin, red cell indices and peripheral smear. Glycemic status was determined by f...

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...

To investigate the role of folic acid deficiency in the pathogenesis of anemia in the elderly, hematological examinationa and assays of serum iron, vitamin B12 and folate were carried out on the 86 elderly patients admitted to a home for the aged. Means of red blood cell counts, hemoglobin levels and hematocrit were 385.3 x 10(4)/mm3, 12g/dl and 36%, respectively. These levels were lower than a...

OBJECTIVE The normochromic normocytic anemia of erythropoietin (EPO) deficiency is recognized in advanced renal failure but not in early renal disease. The aim of this study was to determine whether anemia with EPO deficiency is found in type 1 diabetic patients with diabetic nephropathy in the absence of advanced renal failure and to compare them with patients with nondiabetic renal disease of...

Abstract Background Yazd province which is the host of local and foreign immigrants may be faced with contacting malaria. Plasmodium falciparum malaria remains a major cause of mortality throughout in the tropical regions of the world. Pthophysiologic mechanisms of anemia in malaria is such as direct invasion of Red cells, anemia of chronic disease hypersplenism, Hemophagocytic syndrome an...

A 47-year-old female with a 17-year history of autoimmune hepatitis had been treated with prednisolone, azathioprine, and ursodeoxycholic acid. Although her alanine aminotransferase level occasionally showed mild abnormality, the prednisolone dose could not be increased because she had developed cataract during the course of her illness. In May 2012, she developed severe normochromic normocytic...

A 29-year-old female presented with unexplained anemia (hemoglobin 77 g/L) 5 years after orthoptic heart transplantation. She was being treated with high-dose immunosuppression. The blood film demonstrated a normochromic normocytic anemia. The white cell and platelet counts were normal. There was reticulocytopenia (1 109/L, 0.04%) and an elevated erythropoietin (356 U/mL; normal, 5-18.5 U/mL) w...

OBJECTIVE The aims of this study were to analyze the hematological parameters, the prevalence of anemia and the association between anemia and socioeconomic conditions in an elderly community-based population. METHODS A population-based study was performed as part of the Multidimensional Study of the Elderly in Porto Alegre, Brazil (EMIPOA). An initial total of 1058 community residents aged 6...

BACKGROUND Anemia is considered a severe public health problem by World Health Organization when anemia prevalence is equal to or greater than 40% in the population. The purpose of this study was to determine the anemia prevalence with the associated factors in pregnant women and to determine the serum iron, folate and B12 vitamin status in anaemic pregnants in Malatya province. METHODS This ...

We report a family in which the father and all three children had symptomless chronic renal failure and, in the case of the children, normocytic, normochromic anaemia. None had hypertension, proteinuria, or abnormality of urinary deposit. Renal biopsy specimens showed microcysts confined to the renal cortex; some cysts contained vestigial glomerular tufts. This family appears to represent the f...