OBJECTIVE Anaemia is common during pregnancy, and prenatal Fe supplementation is the standard of care. However, the persistence of anaemia despite Fe supplementation, particularly in HIV infection, suggests that its aetiology may be more complex and warrants further investigation. The present study was conducted to examine predictors of incident haematological outcomes in HIV-infected pregnant ...

Ectopic cilia (EC) are a very rare condition with only few cases reported in literature. Many associations were seen with ectopic cilia which include distichiasis, choristoma and aberrant lacrimal gland, hypochromic nevus, atopic eczema and others. We are reporting a case of an 11-year-old girl with isolated left upper lid ectopic cilia, which was confirmed by surgical removal and histopatholog...

Introduction Chronic atypical neutrophilic dermatosis with lipodystrophy and elevated temperature (CANDLE) syndrome is a newly described autoinflammatory disease, which had been recently reported in 9 patients. It is characterized by onset during the first year of life of recurrent fevers, purpuric skin lesions, arthralgia, progressive lipodystrophy, hypochromic or normocytic anemia, delayed ph...

OBJECTIVE The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of mature red cell and reticulocyte parameters under three conditions: iron deficiency anemia, anemia of chronic disease, and anemia of chronic disease associated with absolute iron deficiency. METHODS Peripheral blood cells from 117 adult patients with anemia were classified according to iron status, and inflammatory activ...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES The anemia of low-risk myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS), refractory anemia (RA) and RA with ringed sideroblasts (RARS), may respond to treatment with hematopoietic growth factors (GF)); erythropoietin (Epo) +/- granulocyte colony-stimulating factor (G-CSF). The present study was designed to assess whether functional iron deficiency may develop in MDS patients receiving ...

BACKGROUND Microcytic hypochromic anemia is a common condition in clinical practice, and alpha-thalassemia has to be considered as a differential diagnosis. AIMS This study was conducted to evaluate the frequency of alpha-gene, beta-gene and hemoglobin variant numbers in subjects with microcytic hypochromic anemia. SETTING AND DESIGNS Population-based case-control study in the Iranian popul...

The group of 17 irradiated rats including the animal that produced anemic progeny (X2) belonged to a stock of rats randomly bred in our laboratory since 1930. The X2 female was one of five females in a litter, which were X-irradiated under conditions reported earlier (SLADICSIMIC et al. 1963). All irradiated females were mated with normal males from the stock and brother-sister matings for each...