ALLMedicine™ Anemia Center

May 28th, 2022 - A 71-year-old man presented with chronic anemia (hemoglobin 7.3 g/dL). Further serum analyses showed elevated prostate-specific antigen (13 ng/mL), suggestive of prostate cancer. However, ultrasound-guided transrectal sextant biopsy did not find a...

May 28th, 2022 - Although patients with either β-thalassemia or chronic kidney disease (CKD) clinically correlate with severe osteoporosis, the mechanism by which CKD exposed to high phosphate affects bone turnover has not been characterized in β-thalassemia. We a...

May 27th, 2022 - Malaria caused by Plasmodium falciparum continues to be a global problem with devastating consequences, in particular for at-risk populations such as pregnant women and young infants. Pregnancy malaria is associated with low birth weight (LBW), ma...

May 27th, 2022 - Most acquired aplastic anemia ensues from immune-mediated destruction of hematopoietic stem and progenitor cells. Immunosuppression is the definitive treatment of patients with acquired aplastic anemia who are not candidates for immediate hematopo...

May 27th, 2022 - Iron deficiency, the principal cause of anemia globally, affects more than two billion individuals, predominantly infants, children and women of childbearing age. Iron deficiency impairs cognitive and behavioral development in childhood, compromis...

Apr 12th, 2021 - In chronic kidney disease, anemia and disordered iron homeostasis are prevalent and associated with significant adverse consequences. In 2012, Kidney Disease: Improving Global Outcomes (KDIGO) issued an anemia guideline for managing the diagnosis,...

Aug 31st, 2020 - Spotlight: Gastrointestinal Evaluation of Iron Deficiency Anemia.|2020|Ko CW,Siddique SM,Patel A,Harris A,Altayar O,|blood,diagnosis,etiology,standards,standards,standards,diagnostic imaging,metabolism,pathology,standards,blood,complications,diagn...

Aug 31st, 2020 - GI Evaluation of Iron Deficiency Anemia: Clinical Decision Support Tool.|2020| ,|blood,diagnosis,etiology,standards,methods,standards,standards,diagnostic imaging,metabolism,pathology,standards,blood,complications,diagnosis,pathology,analysis,diag...

Aug 19th, 2020 - AGA Clinical Practice Guidelines on the Gastrointestinal Evaluation of Iron Deficiency Anemia.|2020|Ko CW,Siddique SM,Patel A,Harris A,Sultan S,|blood,diagnosis,epidemiology,etiology,standards,standards,diagnostic imaging,metabolism,pathology,stan...

Apr 11th, 2019 - To update the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO)/American Society of Hematology (ASH) recommendations for use of erythropoiesis-stimulating agents (ESAs) in patients with cancer. PubMed and the Cochrane Library were searched for randomiz...

May 27th, 2022 - Malaria caused by Plasmodium falciparum continues to be a global problem with devastating consequences, in particular for at-risk populations such as pregnant women and young infants. Pregnancy malaria is associated with low birth weight (LBW), ma...

May 27th, 2022 - Most acquired aplastic anemia ensues from immune-mediated destruction of hematopoietic stem and progenitor cells. Immunosuppression is the definitive treatment of patients with acquired aplastic anemia who are not candidates for immediate hematopo...

May 27th, 2022 - Iron deficiency, the principal cause of anemia globally, affects more than two billion individuals, predominantly infants, children and women of childbearing age. Iron deficiency impairs cognitive and behavioral development in childhood, compromis...

May 27th, 2022 - Malaria caused by Plasmodium falciparum continues to be a global problem with devastating consequences. A greater understanding of the immunologic and parasitologic factors associated with infection and disease is badly needed; and will accelerate...

May 27th, 2022 - Severe aplastic anemia (SAA) is a form of bone marrow failure and in most cases is the result of a cytotoxic T cell attack on the marrow stem cell. It is effectively treated in most patients with either immunosuppressive treatment (IST) or upfront...

May 24th, 2022 - This transcript has been edited for clarity. Peter Higgins, MD, PhD: Hello. I'm Dr Peter Higgins, and welcome to Medscape's InDiscussion series on Crohn's disease. Today we'll be discussing gene therapy trials. Given the recent successes with sick...

May 20th, 2022 - It's "critically important" for clinicians to recognize that not all patients with hypothyroidism are fully treated with levothyroxine (LT4) and some may need combination treatment with triiodothyronine (LT3) despite normal levels of thyroid stimu...

May 9th, 2022 - NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Body lice infestation was associated with lower hemoglobin levels and greater likelihood of anemia in a retrospective study of hospitalized patients. "We had observed anemia in our hospitalized patients who had body lic...

May 7th, 2022 - The FDA has lifted a partial clinical hold that had been placed on studies examining magrolimab in combination with azacitidine following a review of comprehensive safety data collected from each trial, according to an announcement from Gilead Sci...

May 3rd, 2022 - Srdan Verstovsek, MD, PhD, professor, director, Hanns A. Pielenz Clinical Research Center for Myeloproliferative Neoplasms, chief, Section for Myeloproliferative Neoplasms, Department of Leukemia, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center,...