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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
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Korean Society of Echocardiography 2015
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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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author 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
author_facet 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
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description 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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spelling pubmed-47073112016-01-11 Recurrent Acute Decompensated Heart Failure Owing to Severe Iron Deficiency Anemia Caused by Inappropriate Habitual Bloodletting 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 J Cardiovasc Ultrasound Case Report 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. Korean Society of Echocardiography 2015-12 2015-12-30 /pmc/articles/PMC4707311/ /pubmed/26755934 http://dx.doi.org/10.4250/jcu.2015.23.4.253 Text en Copyright © 2015 Korean Society of Echocardiography http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
spellingShingle Case Report
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
Recurrent Acute Decompensated Heart Failure Owing to Severe Iron Deficiency Anemia Caused by Inappropriate Habitual Bloodletting
title Recurrent Acute Decompensated Heart Failure Owing to Severe Iron Deficiency Anemia Caused by Inappropriate Habitual Bloodletting
title_full Recurrent Acute Decompensated Heart Failure Owing to Severe Iron Deficiency Anemia Caused by Inappropriate Habitual Bloodletting
title_fullStr Recurrent Acute Decompensated Heart Failure Owing to Severe Iron Deficiency Anemia Caused by Inappropriate Habitual Bloodletting
title_full_unstemmed Recurrent Acute Decompensated Heart Failure Owing to Severe Iron Deficiency Anemia Caused by Inappropriate Habitual Bloodletting
title_short Recurrent Acute Decompensated Heart Failure Owing to Severe Iron Deficiency Anemia Caused by Inappropriate Habitual Bloodletting
title_sort recurrent acute decompensated heart failure owing to severe iron deficiency anemia caused by inappropriate habitual bloodletting
topic Case Report
url 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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