KROK 1 2015 – Question 70 · KROK (Medicine) · Pathophysiology
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:
- A. Metaplastic anemia
- B. Minkowsky-Shauffard disease
- C. Iron-deficiency anemia
- D. Iron refractory anemia
- E. Hypoplastic anemia
Hint
Think about why the blood iron level is high while haemoglobin is low, and what lead does to the synthesis of haem.
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