The hospital admission rate at Children’s Hospital Zagreb was 9.4% (N = 28), while only one patient was given intravenous iron therapy. Statistical analysis on severe cases of IDA requiring hospitalization and/or transfusions or parenteral iron could not be performed, given the small number of...
CDA II patients exhibit a variable degree of anemia ranging from very severe, requiring red cell transfusions in utero [3,4], to moderate or mild; affected individuals with normal hemoglobin levels have also been reported [5]. Other clinical manifestations include jaundice, splenomegaly, and iron...