A patient presenting with chronic lymphocytic leukaemia and iron deficiency anaemia who, following oral iron therapy, developed the clinical and pathological features of polycythaemia vera is reported. The relationship between these two diseases when co-existing is discussed.

BACKGROUND Iron deficiency anaemia (IDA) affects 1 billion people worldwide and The United Nations Children’s Fund’s (UNICEF) goal to “reduce the prevalence of anaemia (including iron deficiency) by one third by 2010” emphasises this global problem. The World Health Organisation (WHO) estimates that 52.0 % of pregnant women and 39.0 % of infants under four are anaemic in developing countries, c...

Treatment with erythropoiesis-stimulating agents (ESAs) enables the correction of anaemia in chronic kidney disease (CKD) patients, thus reducing its symptoms and complications. Not only is iron therapy aimed at correcting iron deficiency, but also it is an adjuvant therapy in CKD patients receiving ESAs. Iron stores in CKD patients may be near normal, but there may be insufficient immediately ...

Ample evidence now exists to show that the nutritional anawmia, or milk anaemia, of babies bears a very close resemblance to the milk aneemia of rats, but whereas young rats in whom anwemia is induced by prolonged milk feeding suffer from a deficiency of copper as well as of iron, and require both copper and iron for their cure4, it is not yet proven that copper deficiency plays any part in the...

Ample evidence now exists to show that the nutritional anawmia, or milk anaemia, of babies bears a very close resemblance to the milk aneemia of rats, but whereas young rats in whom anwemia is induced by prolonged milk feeding suffer from a deficiency of copper as well as of iron, and require both copper and iron for their cure4, it is not yet proven that copper deficiency plays any part in the...

A case of the surdocardiac syndrome of Jervell and Lange-Nielsen, with prolonged QT interval in the electrocardiogram at birth, is described. The affected girl presented 3 1/2 years later with severe iron deficiency anaemia, despite apparently adequate nutrition. At the age of 4 1/2 years she had a sudden attack of unconsciousness. Treatment with the beta-adrenoceptor blocker practolol was star...

Trichuris dysentery syndrome is caused by Trichuris trichiura which contributes to one of the most common helminthic infections in the world. It is associated with heavy colonic infection that manifests as mucoid diarrhoea, rectal bleeding, rectal prolapse, iron deficiency anaemia, and finger clubbing. Here, we report a case of trichuris dysentery syndrome complicated with severe chronic iron d...

BACKGROUND Antenatal anaemia, iron deficiency and common mental disorders (CMD) are prevalent in low- and middle-income countries. The aim of this study was to examine the direct and indirect effects of antenatal exposures to these risks and infant motor development. METHODS A cohort of women who were pregnant with a single foetus and between 12 and 20 weeks pregnant in 50 randomly-selected r...

OBJECTIVE Menstrual disorders are common in young women, and heavy menstrual blood losses (MBL) are an important cause of anaemia. Menstrual morbidity normally goes untreated in developing countries where cultural barriers also serve to mask the problems. We investigated the prevalence of menstrual morbidity, and measured MBL and its relationship to iron deficiency in a rural adolescent populat...

A 52-year-old woman was referred to our hospital for analysis of iron deficiency anaemia. Her medical history revealed extirpation of a meningeoma, Graves’ disease and atrial fibrillation. She had no complaints. Physical examination was normal. Laboratory investigations revealed microcytic anaemia (haemoglobin 7.3 mmol/l, mean cell volume 76 fl) and iron deficiency (ferritin 15 μg/l, normally >...