Guidelines for the management of iron deficiency anaemia

Gut

Volumn 60, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 1309-1316

  Goddard, Andrew F ^a   James, Martin W ^b   McIntyre, Alistair S ^c   Scott, Brian B ^d  

^a ROYAL DERBY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b NIHR NOTTINGHAM BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^c WYCOMBE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^d LINCOLN COUNTY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; ASCORBIC ACID; FERRIC CARBOXYMALTOSE; FERRIC HYDROXIDE SUCROSE; FERROUS FUMARATE; FERROUS GLUCONATE; FERROUS SULFATE; HEMOGLOBIN; IRON DEXTRAN; PROTON PUMP INHIBITOR; WARFARIN;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ANAPHYLAXIS; ANEMIA; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CELIAC DISEASE; COLON CANCER; COLONOSCOPY; COMORBIDITY; DIARRHEA; DRUG COST; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG FATALITY; DRUG INDUCED HEADACHE; DRUG TOLERABILITY; ELECTROPHORESIS; ERYTHROCYTE; ESOPHAGOGASTRODUODENOSCOPY; FOLLOW UP; GASTRECTOMY; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HUMAN; IRON DEFICIENCY; IRON DEFICIENCY ANEMIA; IRON THERAPY; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; MICROCYTOSIS; NAUSEA; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PREGNANT WOMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; STOMACH CANCER;

ADULT; ANEMIA, IRON-DEFICIENCY; ENDOSCOPY, GASTROINTESTINAL; FEMALE; FERRITINS; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASES; HUMANS; IRON; IRON COMPOUNDS; MALE;

EID: 80052571546     PISSN: 00175749     EISSN: 14683288     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/gut.2010.228874     Document Type: Review

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