Approaches to treating chronic anemia in developing countries

Transfusion Alternatives in Transfusion Medicine

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 75-81

  Phiri, Kamija S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MALAWI   (Malawi)

Author keywords

Anemia; Chronic; Folate; Inflammation; Iron

Indexed keywords

CYANOCOBALAMIN; FERRIC GLUCONATE; FERRIC HYDROXIDE SUCROSE; FERROUS ION; FOLIC ACID; IRON; IRON DEXTRAN; PARACETAMOL;

ANEMIA; ARTHRALGIA; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; CHRONIC DISEASE; CONSTIPATION; CYANOCOBALAMIN DEFICIENCY; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; DIARRHEA; DYSPNEA; EPIGASTRIC DISCOMFORT; ERYTHROPOIESIS; FEVER; FLUSHING; FOLIC ACID DEFICIENCY; GLUCOSE 6 PHOSPHATE DEHYDROGENASE DEFICIENCY; HEMOGLOBINOPATHY; HEMOLYSIS; HOOKWORM INFECTION; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INFLAMMATION; IRON DEFICIENCY; LYMPHADENOPATHY; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; NAUSEA; NUTRITIONAL DEFICIENCY; PAIN; PARASITOSIS; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHISTOSOMIASIS; SICKLE CELL ANEMIA; SIDE EFFECT; TUBERCULOSIS; URTICARIA; VOMITING;

EID: 65249160268     PISSN: 12959022     EISSN: 1778428X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1778-428X.2008.00106.x     Document Type: Article

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