General Internal Medicine

Anemia

Questions discussed in this category

What is your preferred approach in treating recurrent bleeding from GAVE?

What role does TIPS play when other approaches have been exhausted?

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How do you approach the work-up for a patient with iron deficiency anemia who is not responding to oral iron therapy?

Presuming good medication adherence.

1 Answer available

At what ferritin threshold would a patient with anemia of inflammation or malignancy no longer benefit from iron supplementation for functional iron deficiency?

For example, if TSAT is less than 20% but ferritin is over 200.

1 Answer available

Is an elevated CRP an expected finding in an otherwise healthy patient with hemoglobin S - alpha thalassemia?

CRP 39 mg/L (normal < 10) and normal ESR

1 Answer available

Does normal methylmalonic acid levels absolutely rule out vitamin B12 deficiency?

1 Answer available

How do you manage patients who develop minor antigen antibodies and require multiple blood transfusions?

e.g. K, Fya, s, etc

1 Answer available

Would you check vitamin B6 routinely in the work up of anemia?

1 Answer available

Do you routinely check for copper deficiency as part of workup for bicytopenia with leukopenia/anemia or pancytopenia?

1 Answer available

Do you routinely obtain bone marrow biopsy in newly diagnosed autoimmune hemolytic anemia when working up potential underlying etiologies?

1 Answer available

How do you workup erythrocytosis with a normal or elevated serum erythropoietin?

2 Answers available

How do you approach the management of a patient with symptomatic iron deficiency anemia who is intolerant of iron?

Such as a patient who cannot tolerate oral iron and has had a anaphylaxis to intravenous iron

4 Answers available

Papers discussed in this category

Leukemia, 2009-05

The complete evaluation of erythrocytosis: congenital and acquired.

Blood Adv, 2020 Jan 28

American Society of Hematology 2020 guidelines for sickle cell disease: transfusion support.

Blood, 2019 Apr 25

Transfusion-related red blood cell alloantibodies: induction and consequences.

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