A 37-year-old female patient complains of headache, vertigo, troubled sleep, numbness of limbs. For the last 6 years she has been working at the gas-discharge lamp-producing factory in the lead-processing shop. Blood test findings: low hemoglobin and RBC level, serum iron concentration exceeds the norm by several times. Specify the type of anemia:

Answer options

1. Iron-deficiency anemia
2. Hypoplastic anemia
3. Minkowsky-Shauffard disease
4. Metaplastic anemia
5. Iron refractory anemia

Explanation

A 37-year-old female patient complains of headache, vertigo, troubled sleep, numbness of limbs. For the last 6 years she has been working at the gas-discharge lamp-producing factory in the lead-processing shop. Blood test findings: low hemoglobin and RBC level, serum iron concentration exceeds the norm by several times. Specify the type of anemia?Iron refractory anemia is anemia in which the serum iron concentration is increased. In Iron def, Fe is reduced. Minkowsky-shauffard (hereditary spherocytosis) is just when the RBC is spherical in shape. Hypoplastic anemia is a disorder in bone marrow characterized by pancytopenia. Metaplastic is vitamin B12 deficiency.