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anaemia patients should be screened for iron deficiency during follow up.
Not exact matches
«This opens up bone - marrow transplants to virtually any
patient out there with a haematological condition» such as leukaemia or sickle - cell
anaemia, says John Tisdale, a haematologist at the US National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute in Bethesda, Maryland.
In hereditary blood disorders such as sickle cell
anaemia, the production of faulty cells leaves the
patient extremely weak and anaemic.
Most people acquire the virus during blood transfusions, and kidney
patients, who sometimes suffer severe
anaemia, are more likely to have had a transfusion.
As well as informing the search for therapies, this could one day help to develop tests to determine if a
patient's
anaemia is caused by problems in his or her TLR2 / TLR6 response.
«Our findings provide an alternative approach, which is especially relevant because not all
patients with
anaemia of chronic disease have increased hepcidin levels.»
Furthermore,
anaemia and developmental delay present in
patients with TTD [24] and in XpdTTD / TTD mice [15] were both partially rescued in compound heterozygous XpdTTD / † XPCS mice (Figure 2D and 2E).
Management of chemotherapy - related
anaemia with low - dose recombinant human erythropoietin in
patients with small cell lung cancer.
Patients with higher - risk myelofibrosis (with no exclusions for baseline
anaemia or thrombocytopenia) were randomly assigned (2:1) to receive oral pacritinib 400 mg once daily or best available therapy (BAT) excluding JAK2 inhibitors until disease progression or unacceptable toxicity.
The findings of this study suggest that
patients presenting to their general practitioner with unexplained iron deficiency
anaemia, unexplained fatigue or generalised abdominal pain should undergo serological testing for coeliac disease.