Related articles: Anemia
Definition
Decrease in the amount of hemoglobin (pigment localized in red blood cells that has the ability to carry oxygen) present in the blood; it can be caused by acute or chronic bleeding (haemorrhagic anemia), mineral deficiencies (iron deficiency anemia) or vitamins (pernicious anemia, megaloblastic anemia), poisoning, excessive destruction of red blood cells (haemolytic anemia) and other conditions.Possible Causes * of Anemia
- Achalasia
- Alcoholism
- Anemia
- Fanconi anemia
- Hemolytic Anemia
- Autoimmune Hemolytic Anemia
- angiodysplasia
- Giant cell arteritis
- Babesiosis
- Binge drinking
- Colon cancer
- Celiac disease
- Liver Cirrhosis
- Disseminated Intravascular Coagulation
- sickle cell
- Primitive and Secondary Hemochromatosis
- Haemophilia
- Paroxysmal Nocturnal Hemoglobinuria
- haemosiderosis
- Infective endocarditis
- Fetal erythroblastosis
- Uterine fibroids
- Hepatic fibrosis
- Ectopic pregnancy
- Kidney failure
- Pulmonary hypertension
- Histoplasmosis
- Leishmaniasis
- Leptospirosis
- lymphoma
- Systemic lupus erythematosus
- Malaria
- Chagas disease
- Gaucher disease
- Whipple's disease
- Wilson disease
- Pleural mesothelioma
- Myelofibrosis
- Multiple myeloma
- myxoma
- Cooley's disease
- Neuroblastoma
- osteopetrosis
- Osteosarcoma
- Polycythemia vera
- Intestinal polyps
- Porfiria Cutanea Tarda
- Spherocytosis
- Mallory-Weiss syndrome
- Hemolytic-uremic syndrome
- thalassemia
- Typhus
- Toxoplasmosis
- Kidney tumor
- Colorectal cancer
- Wilms tumor
- Cardiac tumors
- Duodenal ulcer
- Gastric ulcer
