nurse's notes

ANEMIA OF CHRONIC DISEASE (RELATIVE MARROW FAILURE)-

• an aregenerative anemia of intrinsic origin occurs in patient with chronic infection
• an anemia with inflammatory states such as rheumatoid arthritis and with neoplastic disease of all types.
• failure of red blood cell production and medication of all types are ineffective in correcting anemia until the infection or inflammatory process has been controlled or the tumor eradicated