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The incidence of anemia in 259 patients with a diaphragmatic hernia large enough to be seen on a routine chest roentgenogram was compared with that in 259 age- and sex-matched controls. Eighteen patients with diaphragmatic hernia were anemic, compared to one control subject (P less than 0.001). In thirteen patients with diaphragmatic hernia and in one control the anemia was proven to be caused by iron deficiency. The findings provide additional evidence that a large diaphragmatic hernia can cause anemia secondary to chronic gastrointestinal blood loss, which is usually not the result of reflux esophagitis.
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PMID:Incidence of iron deficiency anemia in patients with large diaphragmatic hernia. A controlled study. 108 35

Two hundred and thirty-eight subjects of both sexes, age range 7.5 months-16 years, with iron deficiency (ID), were included in a retrospective review of ID causes, to determine the best treatment. Inadequate iron intake was the cause of ID or iron deficiency anemia (IDA) in 59 subjects from the first months of life to adolescence. Blood loss linked to cow's milk intolerance was the cause of ID or IDA in 37 younger children. Meckel's diverticulum (MD) (6 cases), reflux esophagitis (RE) (10 cases), some drugs such as acetyl salicylic acid (11 cases) induced bleeding with ID or IDA in children and adolescents. In pubertal females with ID or IDA, polymenorrhea was observed in 16 cases. Coelic disease (CD) (37 cases), Helicobacter pylori infection (HPI) (39 cases), association of HPI and CD (8 cases), enteromonas infection (15 cases), determining particularly malabsorption, were causes of ID or IDA in patients of a wide age range, unresponsive to iron therapy. Our findings show that iron replacement therapy was not always required and should not be prescribed until the diagnosis is certain.
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PMID:Iron deficiency in childhood and adolescence: retrospective review. 1732 59