Essential Hematology

Essential Hematology

Summary

Anemia of chronic disease occurs in chronic inflammatory processes of various organs (lung, kidney, liver), caused by infectious agents in systemic connective tissue disease, endocrine disease and with tumors of different locations. The etiology of anemia of chronic disease include the infections (acute and chronic), virus like HIV, bacterial, parasitic, fungal, and tumor, hemoblastoses, solid tumors, autoimmune diseases like rheumatoid arthritis, systemic lupus erythematosus and other connective tissue disease, vasculitis, sarcoidosis, chronic inflammatory bowel disease, chronic graft rejection, and chronic kidney disease.

The pathogenesis of anemia of chronic disease, most often takes place a combination of several factors ...