See Also: Iron deficiency anemia(health)
Anemia, iron deficiency(health)
iron-deficiency anemia(encyclopedia)
folic-acid-deficiency anemia(encyclopedia)
deficiency, iron(medicine)
Deficiency, iron(health)
iron deficiency(medicine)
anaemia, iron deficiency(medicine)
iron deficiency anaemia(medicine)
anemia(encyclopedia)

Iron deficiency anemia (health)


A type of hypochromic microcytic anemia caused by low or absent iron stores and serum iron concentration; there is elevated free erythrocyte porphyrin, low transferrin saturation, elevated transferrin, low serum ferritin, and low hemoglobin concentration. Symptoms may include pallor, angular stomatitis and other oral lesions, gastrointestinal complaints, retinal hemorrhages and exudates, and thinning and brittleness of the nails, occasionally leading to spoon nails.