How I manage patients with atypical microcytic anaemia

British Journal of Haematology

Volumn 160, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 12-24

  Camaschella, Clara ^a  

^a VITA SALUTE SAN RAFFAELE UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

Author keywords

Anaemia; Haem; Hepcidin; Iron deficiency; Iron overload; Sideroblast

Indexed keywords

CD71 ANTIGEN; ERYTHROPOIETIN; HEMOGLOBIN; IRON; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; PYRIDOXINE; SLC11A2 PROTEIN; STEAP 3 PROTEIN; TRANSFERRIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ACERULOPLASMINEMIA; ACHLORHYDRIA; ANEMIA; ATPASE ALPHA GENE; AUTOSOMAL RECESSIVE DISORDER; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; DELTA AMINOLEVULINIC ACID SYNTHASE 2 GENE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DRUG EFFICACY; GENE; GENE MUTATION; HUMAN; IRON DEFICIENCY ANEMIA; IRON OVERLOAD; IRON TRANSPORT; MICROCYTIC ANEMIA; MICROCYTOSIS; MOLECULAR PATHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFRACTORY ANEMIA; REVIEW; SLC11A2 GENE; STEAP 3 GENE; SYNDROME DELINEATION; TRANSFERRIN DEFICIENCY; TRANSFERRIN GENE; TRANSFERRIN RECEPTOR 1 GENE; TRANSMEMBRANE PROTEASE SERINE 6 GENE; VITAMIN SUPPLEMENTATION; X LINKED SIDEROBLASTIC ANEMIA;

ANEMIA, HYPOCHROMIC; ANIMALS; HUMANS; IRON; IRON OVERLOAD;

EID: 84870777376     PISSN: 00071048     EISSN: 13652141     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/bjh.12081     Document Type: Review

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