... the OIAT and a hepcidin level below the median (or suppressed ≤0.5 n m ) were considered appropriate. Results: Thirty-nine adult patients were included in the study. Sixteen patients with adequate OIAT had suppressed hepcidin levels indicative of classical iron-deficiency anemia (IDA); 59% of patients had...

...Anat Gafter-Gvili; Amir Schechter; Benaya Rozen-Zvi Iron deficiency anemia is a common complication of chronic kidney disease (CKD). CKD patients suffer from both absolute and functional iron deficiency. Absolute iron deficiency is defined by severely reduced or absent iron stores, while functional...

...Susana Gómez-Ramírez; Elvira Bisbe; Aryeh Shander; Donat R. Spahn; Manuel Muñoz Preoperative anemia affects 30–40% of patients undergoing major surgery and is an independent risk factor for perioperative blood transfusion, morbidity, and mortality. Absolute or functional iron deficiency is its...

... with disease activity, and tending to relapse even after successful therapy. Iron deficiency is the most common cause; however, it often manifests in combination with anaemia of inflammation. As such, multiple parameters are used for the diagnosis of iron deficiency anaemia in IBD. Timely recognition...

...Lalitpatch Deeruksa; Kanokwan Sanchaisuriya This community-based study investigated anemia prevalence and certain hematologic features and their possible relationships to thalassemia and iron deficiency (ID) in a population of older people in Northeastern Thailand. Participants included 319...

...Sirivara Siridamrongvattana; Nguyen Van Hoa; Kanokwan Sanchaisuriya; Nguyen Dung; Phan Thi Thuy Hoa; Pattara Sanchaisuriya; Goonnapa Fucharoen; Supan Fucharoen; Frank P. Schelp Background and Aims: Information about the extent to which anemia is related to thalassemia and iron deficiency (ID...

... the hypothesis that, in stable heart failure patients with anemia, hepcidin is associated with iron deficiency status irrespective of inflammation. Methods and Results: Stable systolic heart failure outpatients with and without anemia underwent a complete iron panel, erythropoietin, hepcidin and tumor necrosis...

...Kasama Wongprachum; Kanokwan Sanchaisuriya; Pattara Sanchaisuriya; Sirivara Siridamrongvattana; Suwanna Manpeun; Frank P. Schlep Background and Aims: The study aimed to determine the proportion of iron deficiency (ID) anemia (IDA) among vegans in northeast Thailand and to explore whether...

...Anupong Pansuwan; Goonnapa Fucharoen; Supan Fucharoen; Boonmee Himakhun; Samrit Dangwiboon The prevalence of adolescent anemia, iron deficiency and thalassemia were examined in 2 provinces of northeast Thailand. Blood specimens were collected from adolescent subjects aged 15–17 years in 2 areas...

... in solution, and 50 mg in quick-release capsules were given to fasting iron-replete controls and iron-deficient subjects in 59 Fe absorption whole-body retention tests. The variability of the results increased with rise of the test doses. Antecedent oral iron substitution and unallowed intake of food...

.... It was significantly increased in overloaded Iron deficiency rats in comparison with normal rats. The iron decrease in liver, Iron storage spleen, brain, kidney, and muscle in highly anaemic rats was significant, while the iron increase in liver, heart, and muscle in iron-overloaded rats was evident in comparison...

...S.N. Wickramasinghe; J.E. Longland A normal rate of incorporation of tritiated thymidine ( 3 H-TdR) into the DNA of bone marrow cells was found in 9 iron-deficient patients and 3 patients with chronic liver disease. By contrast, the uptake was significantly depressed in 5 out of 7 patients...

...M.A.F. El-Hazmi; H. Lehmann Two conditions are liable to lower the α :β globin biosynthesis ratio in reticulocytes: iron deficiency and α-thalassaemia. The present paper studies the effect of haemin on reticulocytes from 12 patients who have α-thalassaemia and/or are iron deficient. The α: β globin...

...Sevgi Yetgin; Cigdem Altay; Gonenc Ciliv; Yahya Laleli In children with iron deficiency anemia, bactericidal capacity of polymorphonuclear leukocytes (PMN) and serum opsonic activity were studied. Nitroblue tetrazolium test (NBT), hexose monophosphate (HMP) shunt activation, and myeloperoxidase...

...Chaim Hershko; Abraham M. Konijn; Alvar Loria The value of serum ferritin and mean corpuscular volume (MCV) measurement in distinguishing between iron deficient, β -thalassaemia trait and normal subjects has been studied. Normal subjects had normal ferritin and MCV, iron-deficient ones had low...

...D. Shaw; G.R. Tudhope 6 patients with polycythaemia vera who also developed concomitant iron deficiency are reported. When oral iron therapy was given, there was a marked reduction in the previously elevated platelet counts in 4 patients; during 2–9 years of observation of these patients...

...B.C. Mehta; D.D. Panjwani; D.A. Jhala 55 patients with iron deficiency anemia (IDA) and 55 age- and sex-matched control subjects were given exercise test on a treadmill to observe the effect on ST segment of the electrocardiogram. 14 IDA patients showed significant ST segment depression compared...

... of heterozygous thalassaemia from iron deficiency anaemia. In addition to haemoglobin, mean corpuscular haemoglobin and mean corpuscular volume, the red cell size-distribution width is measured. In patients with hypochromic microcytic red cells, the Sysmex data have been evaluated and compared with the indices...

... the mean in determining the normal range for Hb. The study population was comprised of 563 Marshallese children representing approximately 3.4% of all children less than 16 years of age living in the Marshall Islands. The local prevalence of anemia and iron deficiency was also established. Actahaemat. 77...

...Abdus Saleem; Dina R. Irani; Jerome B. Bart; Clarence P. Alfrey, Jr. Disorders of iron metabolism affect the expression of hemoglobin H in hemoglobin H disease. Two cases of iron deficiency with reduced synthesis of hemoglobin H are described in the literature. We report two more cases, one...