Criteria for the Primary Defective Iron-Reutilization Syndrome
Purpose: | To determine if a patient with a hypochromic, microcytic anemia meets the criteria for primary defective iron reutilization. |
Specialty: | Hematology Oncology Clinical Laboratory Obstetrics & Gynecology Pedatrics General Surgery Gastroenterology |
Objective: | laboratory tests, criteria for diagnosis |
ICD-10: | D50 |
Description: | The primary defective iron reutilization syndrome involves a microcytic, hypochromic anemia resistant to iron replacement occurring in a patient with no evidence of anemia of chronic disease or other hematologic disorder. |
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