Assesment of the patients presenting with severe anemia to the emergency internal medicine clinic

OBJECTIVE: Etiological evaluation of the patients who were hospitalized with the diagnosis of severe anemia (Hb<7 gr/dl) in the emergency internal medicine clinic between January and July, 2013. METHODS: In this study, 112 patients who were hospitalized in Dr. Lutfi Kirdar Kartal Education and Research Hospital emergency internal medicine clinic with severe anemia between January and July 2013 were retrospec- tively analyzed. Patients' initial complaints, underlying causes of their anemia and prognosis of the patients were evaluated. RESULTS: The etiology of anemia was iron deficiency in 60 (53.6%), chronic kidney failure in 16 (14.2%), hema- tologic malignancies in 12 (10.7%), liver cirrhosis in 12 (10.7%) and other non-malignant hematologic disorders in 4 (3.6%) patients.