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Nutritional anemia
Classification and external resources
ICD-10	D 50.-D 53.
ICD-9	280-281

Nutritional anemia refers to types of anemia that can be directly attributed to nutritional disorders.

Examples include Iron deficiency anemia and pernicious anemia.

It is often discussed in a pediatric context.^[1]^[2]^[3]^[4]

References

^ STURGEON P (May 1952). "Treatment of nutritional anemia in infants". Calif Med 76 (5): 346–9. PMID 14935884.
^ Sinha N, Deshmukh PR, Garg BS (February 2008). "Epidemiological correlates of nutritional anemia among children (6-35 months) in rural Wardha, Central India". Indian J Med Sci 62 (2): 45–54. doi:10.4103/0019-5359.39366. PMID 18319531. http://www.indianjmedsci.org/article.asp?issn=0019-5359;year=2008;volume=62;issue=2;spage=45;epage=54;aulast=Sinha.
^ Vieira AC, Diniz AS, Cabral PC, et al. (2007). "Nutritional assessment of iron status and anemia in children under 5 years old at public daycare centers". J Pediatr (Rio J) 83 (4): 370–6. doi:10.2223/JPED.1680. PMID 17676239.
^ West CE (November 1996). "Strategies to control nutritional anemia". Am. J. Clin. Nutr. 64 (5): 789–90. PMID 8901803. http://www.ajcn.org/cgi/pmidlookup?view=long&pmid=8901803.

External links

NAAC Information Handout: Vitamin Deficiency Anemia

Pathology: hematology · hematologic diseases of RBCs and megakaryocytes / MEP (D50-69,74, 280-287)

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Nutritional

Micro-: Iron deficiency anemia (Plummer-Vinson syndrome)

Macro-: Megaloblastic anemia (Pernicious anemia)

Hemolytic
(mostly Normo-)

Hereditary	enzymopathy: G6PD · glycolysis (PK, TI, HK) hemoglobinopathy: Thalassemia (alpha, beta, delta) · Sickle-cell disease/trait · HPFH membrane: Hereditary spherocytosis (Minkowski-Chauffard syndrome) · Hereditary elliptocytosis (Ovalocytosis) · Hereditary stomatocytosis

Acquired	Autoimmune (WAHA, CAD, PCH) membrane (PNH) MAHA · TM (HUS) Drug-induced autoimmune · Drug-induced nonautoimmune Hemolytic disease of the newborn

Aplastic
(mostly Normo-)

Hereditary: Fanconi anemia · Diamond–Blackfan anemia

Acquired: PRCA · Sideroblastic anemia · Myelophthisic

Blood tests

MCV (Normocytic, Microcytic, Macrocytic) · MCHC (Normochromic, Hypochromic)

Other

Methemoglobinemia · Sulfhemoglobinemia · Reticulocytopenia

Coagulation/
coagulopathy/
bleeding
diathesis

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Thrombocytosis	Essential thrombocytosis

Hypercoagulability	primary: Antithrombin III deficiency · Protein C deficiency/Activated protein C resistance/Protein S deficiency/Factor V Leiden · Hyperprothrombinemia acquired: DIC (Congenital afibrinogenemia, Purpura fulminans) · autoimmune (Antiphospholipid)

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M: MYL

cell/phys (coag, heme, gran)

rbmg/mogr/tumr, sysi/epon, btst

drug (B1/2/3+5+6), btst

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