Microcytic anemia is a blood disorder in which the red blood cells are too small due to a lack of hemoglobin. Hemoglobin, an iron-rich protein, binds to oxygen, delivering it throughout the body ...

In a 20-year-old female patient with small-bowel Crohn's disease with mild microcytic anemia and low serum ferritin, is it reasonable to treat with a total dose infusion of parenteral iron if she ...

Thrombocytopenia is the most common type of cytopenia among patients with NPDC, the authors wrote, followed by anemia, though the anemia is typically not considered microcytic.