Current Concepts in the Pathogenesis of Anemia and Erythrocytosis

Calderón-Gerstein W. · Comprehensive Hematology and Stem Cell Research: Volume 1-5 (2024) · DOI: 10.1016/b978-0-443-15717-2.00132-3

Resumen

Anemia is a complex medical condition that has various causes. Not only does a deficiency in nutrient intake participate in its genesis, but also inflammatory or infectious processes that prevent the use of iron, or drugs and congenital diseases that alter the incorporation of other elements into the erythrocyte. Excess hemoglobin, on the other hand, is deleterious to the body and erythrocytosis is not usually a primary disease, but rather the presentation of other alterations, both congenital and acquired, whose pathophysiology is important to understand to carry out the diagnosis and further treatment. appropriate.

Instituciones: Universidad Continental