Anemia of Chronic Disease

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Anemia of Chronic Disease (ACD) is a complicated form of anemia that occurs in part due to decreased production of erythropoietin. Procrit is approved by the US Food and Drug Administration to treat ACD in subjects with non-myeloid malignancies (cancer not originating from certain bone marrow cells) receiving chemotherapy, in subjects with chronic renal failure (pre-dialysis), and in HIV-infected subjects receiving zidovudine therapy.

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Anemia of Chronic Disease - Cancer - C-Health (698 words)
	Anemia of chronic disease is thought to be the second most common type of anemia, next to iron deficiency anemia.
	Anemia of chronic disease may go unnoticed and untreated because the attention is centered on the disease that is causing it.
	Although the exact cause of anemia of chronic disease is not known, it is related to the effects of chronic diseases on the red blood cells.

Anemia of Chronic Disease - Hematology- MEDSTUDENTS (1788 words)
	Anemia of chronic disease is characterized by a small decrease of the half-life of red cells, caused either by a disturbance of the iron metabolism or by resistance to erythropoietin action.
	The chronic disease anemia is generally light and moderate, its symptoms being masqueraded by the underlying disease.
	In chronic disease anemia the iron stocks are increased in the bone marrow, due to the higher quantity of iron in the macrophages.

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