Open AccessAssessment of Anemia in Correlation with Inflammatory Status in Patients with Intestinal Transit Disorders
Author(s) -
Cristina Voicu,
Sorin Rugină
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
medicina internă
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1220-5818
DOI - 10.2478/inmed-2018-0034
Subject(s) - diarrhea , anemia , medicine , constipation , differential diagnosis , inflammatory bowel diseases , gastroenterology , immunology , inflammatory bowel disease , pathology , disease
The intestinal transit disorders are polymorphic clinical manifestations requiring complex differential diagnosis and a multidisciplinary medical team. A major challenge for the clinician is the differentiation of patients with organic suffering versus functional disorder. Anemia is the most common extra-digestive manifestation of intestinal inflammatory diseases. We have evaluated biologically and by imaging patients with diarrhea and alternating diarrhea/constipation without including infectious causes. We plan to determine in these patients the status and type of anemia, as well as its correlation with local and systemic inflammation.