Review
Medicine in the elderly
Does this elderly patient have iron deficiency anaemia, and what
is the underlying cause?
O M P Jolobe
Department
of Medicine for the Elderly, Tameside General Hospital, Fountain
Street, Ashton under Lyne, OL6 9RW, UK
Correspondence to: Dr Jolobe
Submitted 24
February 1999;
Accepted 7 June 1999
Important implications for the recognition of iron
deficiency anaemia include diagnosis and correction of underlying
causes, most of which are identifiable, in the older patient, by means of conventional upper gastrointestinal endoscopy, and by colonoscopy. The aetiological search may, however, have to be widened to include enteroscopic examination of the jejunum and ileum and, in some instances, investigation of potential non-gastrointestinal foci of
chronic blood loss. A substantial minority may defy even the most
thorough search for the underlying cause.
Keywords: iron deficiency; validation; underlying causes
© 2000 by The Fellowship of Postgraduate Medicine
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