Recurrent Acute Decompensated Heart Failure Owing to Severe Iron Deficiency Anemia Caused by Inappropriate Habitual Bloodletting

A 68-year-old woman visited the emergency department twice with symptoms of acute heart failure including shortness of breath, general weakness, and abdominal distension. Laboratory findings showed extremely low level of serum hemoglobin at 1.4 g/dL. Echocardiographic examination demonstrated dilate...

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Autores principales: Lim, Woo-Hyun, Kim, Sang-Hyun, Kim, Hack-Lyoung, Kim, Ki-Hwan, Na, Sang Hoon, Lee, Hyun-Jung, Kang, Eun Gyu, Seo, Jae-Bin, Chung, Woo-Young, Zo, Joo-Hee, Hong, Jung Ae, Kim, Kwangyoun, Kim, Myung-A
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Korean Society of Echocardiography 2015
Materias:
Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4707311/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26755934
http://dx.doi.org/10.4250/jcu.2015.23.4.253
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Sumario:A 68-year-old woman visited the emergency department twice with symptoms of acute heart failure including shortness of breath, general weakness, and abdominal distension. Laboratory findings showed extremely low level of serum hemoglobin at 1.4 g/dL. Echocardiographic examination demonstrated dilated left ventricular cavity with systolic dysfunction and moderate amount of pericardial effusion. In this patient, acute heart failure due to severe iron deficiency anemia was caused by inappropriate habitual bloodletting.

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