The Evidence-Based Evaluation of Iron Deficiency Anemia

Medical Clinics of North America

Volumn 100, Issue 5, 2016, Pages 1065-1075

  Hempel, Eliana V ^a   Bollard, Edward R ^a  

^a PENN STATE COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Iron deficiency anemia; Microcytic anemia; Occult gastrointestinal bleed

Indexed keywords

FERRITIN; HEMOGLOBIN; TRANSFERRIN RECEPTOR; IRON;

ADULT; BLOOD CELL COUNT; CASE REPORT; CHRONIC DISEASE; CLINICAL EVALUATION; COLONOSCOPY; COMORBIDITY; CROHN DISEASE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ELECTROPHORESIS; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; FATIGUE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFLAMMATORY BOWEL DISEASE; IRON DEFICIENCY ANEMIA; MALE; MEAN CORPUSCULAR VOLUME; MENORRHAGIA; MICROCYTIC ANEMIA; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RED BLOOD CELL DISTRIBUTION WIDTH; REVIEW; THALASSEMIA; UNITED STATES; ANAMNESIS; ANEMIA, IRON-DEFICIENCY; BLOOD; COMPLICATION; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE;

ANEMIA, IRON-DEFICIENCY; CROHN DISEASE; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; FATIGUE; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HUMANS; IRON; MEDICAL HISTORY TAKING; MENORRHAGIA; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; THALASSEMIA;

EID: 84999006685     PISSN: 00257125     EISSN: 15579859     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mcna.2016.04.015     Document Type: Review

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