Acute Reversible Heart Failure in Severe Iron-Deficiency Anemia Associated with Hookworm Infestation in Uganda Africans

1 May 1959

journal article
research article
Published by Wolters Kluwer Health in Circulation

Vol. 19 (5) , 672-675
https://doi.org/10.1161/01.cir.19.5.672

Abstract

Severe iron deficiency anemia is a common sequel to the heavy hookworm infestations prevalent in Uganda, and in some hypoxia can be so severe that heart failure supervenes. The clinical manifestations in 15 cases are described. Comment is made on reversible electrocardiographic changes.

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