Systemic consequences of non-healing skin wounds: anaemia of chronic disease.
The paper describes a case of skin wounds inflicted by automutilation in a young woman with psychic regulation disorder. Repeated local irritation and infection produced a complicated systemic disorder leading to hypochromic anaemia which failed to respond to Fe treatment. The paper discusses the mechanism of this type of anaemia which appears in literature under the heading of anaemia of chronic disease (ACD).
Department of Plastic Surgery, Medical Faculty, Masaryk University, Brno, Czechoslovakia.
J
J
Pospísilová
E
E
Dungelová
M
M
Klobásová
D000328:Adult; D000747:Anemia, Hypochromic / Q000209:etiology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D012652:Self Mutilation / Q000150:complications*; D014945:Wound Healing / Q000502:physiology; D014950:Wounds, Penetrating / Q000150:complications*