Infectious salmon anaemia (ISA) is a severe disease in farmed Atlantic salmon Salmo salar that has caused epidemic outbreaks in most salmon-producing countries worldwide. The disease is caused by virulent ISA virus (ISAV). Low virulent variants of the virus, characterised by a full-length sequence in the highly polymorphic region of segment 6 in the virus genome, have been reported with increas...

The common anaemia in premature infants is iron deficiency anaemia, but megaloblastic anaemia can also occur and here we report three such cases. Our interest in megaloblastic anaemia was stimulated by a recent case in which megaloblastic anaemia developed when a low phenylalanine diet was being given for treatment of phenylketonuria (Royston and Parry, 1962). In the discussion of this paper Ro...

Anaemia is considered as the chief cause of iron deficiency in the body which is the most prevalent nutritional deficiency throughout the world. Anaemia accounts for significant morbidity particularly in underdeveloped countries. Parasitic infestations are among the leading health problems in resource poor countries due to poor hygienic conditions. In the present study we aim to analyse associa...

The most common type of congenital haemolytic anaemia found in Great Britain is familial haemolytic anaemia (chronic acholuric jaundice). A similar congenital haemolytic anaemia may be found on rare occasions in children in whom the red cells do not show spherocytosis, or increased osmotic fragility. The response to splenectomy is not very satisfactory and the syndrome does not fit into the est...

Massawe S. (2002) Anaemia in women of reproductive age in Tanzania. A study in Dar es Salaam. Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis, Comprehensive Summaries of Uppsala Dissertations from the Faculty of Medicine 1151, 64 pp. Uppsala. ISBN 91-554-5308-2. The overall aims of the study were to determine the prevalence of anaemia in women of reproductive age and to investigate the underlying causes, as wel...

Haematological abnormalities are common in systemic lupus erythematosus. Anaemia is found in about 50% of patients, with anaemia of chronic disease being the most common form. Impaired erythropoietin response and presence of antibodies against erythropoietin may contribute to the pathogenesis of this type of anaemia. Patients with autoimmune haemolytic anaemia usually belong to a distinct categ...

A patient with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy was found to have a chronic intravascular haemolytic anaemia. After investigation this was attributed to the abnormal haemodynamics of the cardiac disease. Treatment with propranolol was associated with an improvement in the anaemia. No further cases of haemolytic anaemia were found in 37 other patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. It is concluded...

BACKGROUND Anaemia in pregnancy is a major public health and economic problem worldwide, that contributes to both maternal and fetal morbidity and mortality. OBJECTIVE The aim of the study was to calculate the prevalence of anaemia in early pregnancy in a cohort of 'low risk' women participating in a large international multicentre prospective study (n = 5 609), to identify the modifiable ris...

compared to extraintestinal disease complications such as arthritis or osteopathy, anaemia in IBD has received little attention. Anaemia is, however, the most common systemic manifestation of IBD 1,2 In a recent review by Gisbert and Gomollón, the prevalence of anaemia in patients with IBD ranged from 16% to 74%, varying from 16% outpatients to 68% in hospitalised patients2. Goodhand et al.3 de...

BACKGROUND Severe anaemia is a common, frequently fatal, condition in African children admitted to hospital, but its long term outcome is unknown. Early reports that survivors may be at risk of additional late morbidity and mortality may have significant implications for child survival in Africa. We assessed the short and long term outcome of severe anaemia in Malawian children and identified p...