ALLMedicine™ Anemia Of Chronic Disease Center

Jan 19th, 2023 - Iron Study Interpretation Increases in serum iron level are associated with the following [1, 2, 3, 4] : Idiopathic hemochromatosis Liver necrosis (viral hepatitis) Hemosiderosis caused by excessive iron intake (eg, multiple transfusions, excess i...

Jan 19th, 2023 - Iron Study Interpretation Increases in serum iron level are associated with the following [1, 2, 3, 4] : Idiopathic hemochromatosis Liver necrosis (viral hepatitis) Hemosiderosis caused by excessive iron intake (eg, multiple transfusions, excess i...

Jan 19th, 2023 - Increases in serum iron level are associated with the following[1, 2, 3, 4] : Idiopathic hemochromatosis Liver necrosis (viral hepatitis) Hemosiderosis caused by excessive iron intake (eg, multiple transfusions, excess iron administration) Acute i...

Jan 7th, 2023 - Vitamin B6 is essential for life and plays a critical role in many biochemical and physiological processes in the human body. The term B6 collectively refers to 6 water-soluble vitamers, and only the pyridoxal 5'-phosphate (PLP) serves as the biol...

Dec 22nd, 2022 - Hidradenitis suppurativa (HS) is a multifactorial inflammatory disorder. Previous studies have ascertained an association between anemia and HS; however, they were limited by low sample size and lack of demographic information. The objective of th...

Nov 28th, 2022 - One of the worldwide health problems that covers more than a quarter of the population is anemia. The World Health Organization (WHO) recommendations use of hemoglobin concentration for diagnosing anemia as hemoglobin (Hb) level <12 g/dL and < 13 ...

Mar 8th, 2022 - Anemia is a decrease in the concentration of hemoglobin (Hb) or RBC count in the blood ting, causing body not being able to adequately supply oxygen to tissues and cells. Preoperative anemia is common in patients receiving elective surgery, with a...

May 12th, 2021 - The prevalence of anemia in gynecologic oncology new patients has been seen in previous studies to be as high as 35-59%. this population includes women with several types of gynecologic malignancies. Therefore, it is assumed that the origin of the...

Mar 29th, 2018 - Patients with cirrhosis are at risk of developing both IDA and anemia of chronic disease concomitantly, and there adverse effects can deteriorate general condition and affect of quality of life in these patients .Also because it is easier to corre...

May 9th, 2017 - Crohn's disease (CD) and ulcerative colitis (UC) are chronic gastrointestinal diseases characterized by relapsing and remitting inflammation of the intestines . Anemia may often complicate the course of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) . A recent ...

Nov 30th, 2022 - This transcript has been edited for clarity. Ileana L. Piña, MD, MPH: Hi. I'm Ileana Piña, heart failure transplant cardiologist and quality chief at Thomas Jefferson in Philadelphia. This is my blog from the American Heart Association meeting in ...

Aug 4th, 2022 - Prevention and mitigation of cardiovascular events, such as thrombohemorrhagic complications, have been the main goal of treatment development for patients with essential thrombocythemia (ET) and polycythemia vera (PV).1,2 An improved understandin...

Jul 11th, 2022 - Rami Komrokji, MD: Ruben, there was an interesting abstract presented [at the American Society of Hematology Annual Meeting in 2021] by Dr Ronald Hoffman on PTG-300 [rusfertide] for phlebotomy-dependent patients. Can you walk us through it? This d...

Apr 2nd, 2021 - Ruben A. Mesa, MD: Evolving options for treating PV [polycythemia vera] are several, and I would put them in a couple of different categories. The first is long-acting interferons. My colleagues and I have been involved with the clinical trials wi...

Jul 21st, 2020 - CASE 1 Beth O, a 63-year-old woman, presents to the emergency department (ED) with a 2-week history of diarrhea (6 very loose, watery stools per day) and lower abdominal pain. The patient denies any vomiting, sick contacts, or recent travel.