Iron deficiency anemia: Evaluation and management

American Family Physician

Volumn 87, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 98-104

  Short, Matthew W ^a   Domagalski, Jason E ^a  

^a Madigan Healthcare System   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ERYTHROPOIETIN; FERRIC GLUCONATE; FERROUS FUMARATE; FERROUS SULFATE; FERUMOXYTOL; IRON; IRON DEXTRAN; IRON SACCHARATE; ANTIANEMIC AGENT; FERRIC ION; FERRITIN;

ANEMIA; ARTICLE; BLOOD CELL COUNT; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CONSTIPATION; CONTINUOUS INFUSION; DIARRHEA; ENTERITIS; EPIGASTRIC DISCOMFORT; GASTROINTESTINAL ENDOSCOPY; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; GASTROINTESTINAL SYMPTOM; HEADACHE; HEMOGLOBIN BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; INTESTINE ABSORPTION; IRON DEFICIENCY ANEMIA; IRON THERAPY; KIDNEY FAILURE; MENOPAUSE; NAUSEA; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ALGORITHM; BLOOD; CHILD; FEMALE; INFANT; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MALE; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; PREGNANCY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; REFERENCE VALUE;

ADMINISTRATION, ORAL; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ALGORITHMS; ANEMIA, IRON-DEFICIENCY; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; FERRIC COMPOUNDS; FERRITINS; HEMATINICS; HUMANS; INFANT; INJECTIONS, INTRAVENOUS; MALE; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; PREGNANCY; REFERENCE VALUES;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84874481076     PISSN: 0002838X     EISSN: 15320650     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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