recently experienced childbirth, the history should establish whether the patient had excessive bleeding during pregnancy, and whether the patient has other children and when they were born, because the closer together the pregnancies were, the greater is the risk for development of iron deficiency ...
Iron Deficiency Anemia in Pregnancy and Treatment Options: A Patient-preference Study [1l] As many as 17% of Canadian women suffer from iron deficiency anemia (IDA) in pregnancy. Treatment options include oral ferrous salts, haem iron, intravenous (IV) iron and blood transfusions. Trade-offs ...
Intravenous Iron Therapy: Safe and Effective Alternative for Pediatric Iron Deficiency Anemia In early childhood, iron deficiency anemia (IDA) is often caused by factors such as poor dietary intake, rapid growth, and... CURATED BY: Barb Dehn, ...
iron deficiencyhospitalized patientsdegree of anaemiaIron deficiency anaemia in moderate to severely anaemic hospitalised patients was carried out in Osogbo metropolis, with the aim of determining the degree of iron deficiency anaemia in the study population. One hundred confirmed anaemic and recently un...
Measurement of C-reactive protein was performed to exclude false-negative result of iron deficiency. The prevalence of anemia was found to be 25.1%. ID accounted for only 10.5%. Various types of thalassemia were identified in 67.7% of the subjects. The overall prevalence of thalassemia included ...
Iron deficiency anemia is the final stage of iron deficiency. When the body has sufficient iron to meet its needs (functional iron), the remainder is stored for later use in the bone marrow, liver, and spleen. Iron deficiency ranges from iron depletion, which yields little physiological damage...
Iron deficiency is the commonest nutritional deficiency disorder prevalent worldwide. It is the main cause of anemia during pregnancy and lactation among women and infancy and preschool age in children. In the developing countries, the prevalence is usually highest in infants and preschool-aged childr...
Using baseline patient data, we assessed the association of anaemia and iron deficiency with health-related quality of life, employing the 36-item Kidney Disease Quality of Life Questionnaire. Results The mean mental and physical component summary scores for all patients were 49 and 47, respectively...
Iron deficiency is the leading nutritional deficiency in the world and the most common cause of anemia in the United States.
iron lung- respirator that produces alternations in air pressure in a chamber surrounding a patient's chest to force air into and out of the lungs thus providing artificial respiration inhalator,respirator- a breathing device for administering long-term artificial respiration ...