A 37-year-old woman complains of headache, vertigo, troubled sleep, numbness of limbs. For the last 6 years she has been working at a gas-discharge lamp-producing factory in a 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 refractory anemia
2. Iron-deficiency anemia
3. Metaplastic anemia
4. Minkowsky-Shauffard disease
5. Hypoplastic anemia

Explanation

A 37-year-old woman complains of headache, vertigo, troubled sleep, numbness of limbs. For the last 6 years she has been working at a gas-discharge lamp-producing factory in a 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:The underlined symptoms are neurological effects of Lead poisoning. Lead poisoning also causes anemia by causing hemolysis of red blood cells… hence the increased iron content in the blood.