Kaolin Clay Anemia

Iron deficiency anemia is a common diagnosis encountered in the nutrition, primary care, and gastroenterology fields. Iron deficiency anemia most often leads to evaluation for various malabsorption disorders and colonoscopy to exclude colon cancer as an etiology. We present a case of iron deficiency...

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Autores principales: Attarha, Barrett O, Mikulic, Sebastian, Harris, Ciel, Scolapio, James S
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2021
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Internal Medicine
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8033420/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33842169
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.13796
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author Attarha, Barrett O
Mikulic, Sebastian
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description Iron deficiency anemia is a common diagnosis encountered in the nutrition, primary care, and gastroenterology fields. Iron deficiency anemia most often leads to evaluation for various malabsorption disorders and colonoscopy to exclude colon cancer as an etiology. We present a case of iron deficiency anemia that was caused by geophagia. After the culprit dietary habit was stopped, the patient's iron deficiency anemia subsequently resolved.
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spelling pubmed-80334202021-04-10 Kaolin Clay Anemia Attarha, Barrett O Mikulic, Sebastian Harris, Ciel Scolapio, James S Cureus Internal Medicine Iron deficiency anemia is a common diagnosis encountered in the nutrition, primary care, and gastroenterology fields. Iron deficiency anemia most often leads to evaluation for various malabsorption disorders and colonoscopy to exclude colon cancer as an etiology. We present a case of iron deficiency anemia that was caused by geophagia. After the culprit dietary habit was stopped, the patient's iron deficiency anemia subsequently resolved. Cureus 2021-03-10 /pmc/articles/PMC8033420/ /pubmed/33842169 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.13796 Text en Copyright © 2021, Attarha et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8033420/
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