Severe iron deficiency anemia: red blood cell transfusion or intravenous iron?
Severe iron deficiency anemia: red blood cell transfusion or intravenous iron?
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严重缺铁性贫血:输红细胞还是静脉补铁?
DOI:
10.1111/trf.14819
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发表时间:
2018
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影响因子:
2.9
通讯作者:
Sweeney,JosephD
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作者:
Nixon,ChristianP;Sweeney,JosephD
Iron deficiency (ID) is considered to affect two billion people worldwide1 and iron deficiency anemia (IDA) remains the common cause of anemia in both economically developed and underdeveloped countries. 2, 3 Groups at risk for ID and IDA are preschool children, adolescents, especially female, females during the reproductive years, pregnant females and the elderly. The mechanisms of IDA differ between developed and underdeveloped countries and between the groups at risk in developed countries. More details on these aspects are available elsewhere. 4–9 IDA can be determined by standard laboratory testing10 and the extent of the iron deficit measured using the Ganzoni formula (iron deficit (mg)= patient weight (Kg)×(target–actual hemoglobin)× 2.4+ 500) or a derivative of this formula. 12 It needs to be emphasized that IDA is not a diagnosis but rather a secondary manifestation of the presence of an underlying abnormality, the cause of which needs also to be elucidated. 13 Treatment needs to be directed at both iron repletion and correction of the causative abnormality.Severe IDA has no clear threshold hemoglobin and may or may not be associated with the classic features of anemia such as fatigue and pallor. Severe IDA, however, is relevant to Transfusion Medicine since it raises the specter of using allogeneic red blood cells as the source of iron repletion. A unit of red blood cells supplies between 150–200 mg of elemental iron but also hemoglobin allowing, in principle, a more rapid correction of microvascular hypoxemia. For this reason, red blood cell transfusion is commonly administered when patients with severe IDA present with angina, neurologic symptoms, clinical features indicative of heart failure or are hemodynamically unstable. The use of red blood cells in some of these scenarios may paradoxically be detrimental. 14–16