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Gastrointestinal Aspects of Eating Disorders
Published in Kevin W. Olden, Handbook of Functional Gastrointestinal Disorders, 2020
Bruce D. Waldholtz, Arnold E. Andersen
Multiple abnormalities in hematological and blood-chemistry studies may occur and contribute to both GI and general medical symptoms. Leukopenia, anemia, or thrombocytopenia may occur due to decreased bone-marrow production. Specific folate- or B12-deficiency anemias are less common (16). A pretreatment pseudonormal hematocrit may appear to decrease as secondary dehydration is corrected during the early phase of treatment.
Unexplained Fever In Hematologic Disorders Section 1. Benign Hematologic Disorders
Published in Benedict Isaac, Serge Kernbaum, Michael Burke, Unexplained Fever, 2019
Isolated normocytic anemia may be seen in any chronic infectious inflammatory and malignant disorder. Usually the anemia is not severe, but in chronic renal failure, hemoglobin down to 7 g per dl may be quite commonly observed. Typically, the serum iron is low and transferrin levels are also below normal. Thus, in contrast to iron deficiency anemias, iron saturation is often within normal limits, levels of ferritin are also normal or somewhat elevated.
Glucose-6-Phosphate Dehydrogenase Deficiency: An Overview of the Prevalence and Genetic Variants in Saudi Arabia
Published in Hemoglobin, 2021
Similar to G6PD deficiency, anemias including hemoglobinopathies are prevalent in Saudi Arabia [88–92]. Malaria is also prevalent in the Southwestern region of Saudi Arabia, with 5382 cases reported in 2016 [17], and other regions of Saudi Arabia [93]. The coinheritance of G6PD with hemoglobinopathies or even malaria is very high [94–97], in Bahrain [32,36] and in Saudi Arabia [54,98,99]. Al-Dabbous and Al-Meer [54] reported a high incidence of G6PD with sickle cell trait (20.0%) and sickle cell disease (1.58%), similar finding with the coexistence of G6PD with sickle cell disease (29.7%; 11 out of 37 sickle cell disease) reported in 2007 [99] in the Eastern Province of Saudi Arabia.
A Comparison of Emergency First Presentations of Colorectal Cancer in Under–50 and Over–50 Year-Old Patients
Published in Journal of Investigative Surgery, 2020
Prateush Singh, Krashna Patel, Pallavi Arya, Esha Singh, Amitabh Mishra
The majority of malignancies in our study were distal to the splenic flexure in both cohorts, consistent with data from the SEER studies. The clinical presentation of bowel obstruction varies with location, with left sided lesions presenting with altered bowel habit and melaena or hematochezia, and right-sided lesions presenting with more diffuse symptoms such as weight loss and iron deficiency anemias. It is likely that right sided malignancies presenting like this will do so at a later more advanced stage before emergency presentation, and this is consistent with a lower proportion of patients presenting with weight loss and iron deficiency anemias in our study.