The anemia of cancer patients is a form of the anemia of chronic disease (ACD), which is a multifactorial condition, to a large extent caused by production of cytokines with a detrimental effect on the production of red cells (Figure 2). These cytokines are both inflammatory and para...
Moreover, patients with scabies have higher risks of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and autoimmune diseases. Immune-mediated inflammatory cascades may contribute to the underpinning pathophysiology.9,10 Although systemic immune-mediated inflammatory processes are part of the pathophysiology of ...
A retrospective observational study was conducted in four Croatian pediatric hematology centers on patients aged 0–18 years diagnosed with iron deficiency anemia (ICD-10 D50.0–D50.9) and treated from 1 January 2017 to 31 December 2021. The geographical location and characteristics of each participat...
parents agreed to be visited by the research staff in their household twice weekly during the study period and they did not have any plan to move outside of the study area for more than 30 days during the first 6 months of follow-up. The exclusion criteria included: family had a plan ...