Forty two children were admitted to this hospital between 1975 and 1980 with severe iron deficiency anaemia and 8 of them also had oedema caused by a low concentration of serum proteins. These 8 patients, aged 8-24 months, and 13 age matched controls were investigated. The patients had excessive faecal loss of 59FeCl or 51Cr-albumin, or both; their jejunal biopsy specimens showed little decreas...

role of patients in determining their own care. By concentrating on the relationship between professional 'providers' and lay 'consumers' Professor Campbell ignores the positive aspects of enabling people to make choices about their health. In doing so, patients are in a better position to ensure that the services they receive reflect their needs more closely. The perspective of consumerism has...

Anaemia has remained a widespread public health problem in countries of the Eastern Mediterranean Region. Prevalence figures vary from a low of 17% to a high of over 70% among preschool children; from 14% to 42% among adolescents and from 11% to over 40% among women of childbearing age. Although the prevalence of anaemia has often been used as a proxy indicator for iron deficiency anaemia, this...

This article considers the use and modality of iron therapy to treat iron deficiency in patients with heart failure, an aspect of care which has received relatively little attention compared with the wider topic of anaemia management. Iron deficiency affects up to 50% of heart failure patients, and is associated with poor quality of life, impaired exercise tolerance, and mortality independent o...

Studying hepcidin in humans is en vogue as demonstrated by an increasing number of publications addressing this key hormone of iron homeostasis over the last decade. As a key regulator of iron transport, hepcidin has been clearly implicated in the pathogenesis of anaemia in chronic kidney disease (CKD), but a more complex pathophysiology is beginning to emerge in which altered iron biology cont...

BACKGROUND & OBJECTIVES Iron deficiency anaemia (IDA) is the most common nutritional deficiency in pregnancy. Prophylactic oral iron is recommended during pregnancy to meet the increased requirement. In India, women become pregnant with low baseline haemoglobin level resulting in high incidence of moderate to severe anaemia in pregnancy where oral iron therapy cannot meet the requirement. Pregn...

BACKGROUND Rigorous data are sparse concerning the optimal route of administration and dosing strategy for iron therapy with or without concomitant erythropoiesis-stimulating agent (ESA) therapy for the management of iron deficiency anaemia in patients with non-dialysis dependent chronic kidney disease (ND-CKD). METHODS FIND-CKD was a 56-week, open-label, multicentre, prospective, randomized ...

Iron-deficiency anaemia will develop in half the males and nearly all females after partial gastrectomy, and in addition to causing the anaemia the sideropenia may cause any general symptoms such as lassitude, failure to maintain weight, or dumping symptoms. The variable response to treatment is due to the fact that ferrous iron is not adequately released from coated tablets taken after meals a...

Iron deficiency anemia is a major health problem in adults. In developing nations empirical antihelminthics is advice in pediatric population with iron deficiency anemia, but the use is just extended to adult population frequently. Aim was to study the occurrence of helminthic infestation in cases of iron deficiency anemia. A descriptive study was done in 74 adult cases of iron deficiency anaem...

Iron constitutes the most prevalent nutritional deficiency worldwide. In Chile, anaemia epidemiological data is scarce, evaluating mainly children and women. Our objective was to determine prevalence of anaemia in an inpatient elderly population (≥60 years) and assess the usefulness of sTfR levels analyzed by other authors as a good predictor in the differential diagnosis of iron deficiency ana...