Anemia of Chronic Diseases (ACD)

Abstract

Anemia that occurs in infectious and inflammatory processes, non-infectious inflammatory diseases, and tumors is called "anemia in chronic diseases" (AHZ). With all the variety of pathogenetic mechanisms of anemia in these situations, one of the main ones is the redistribution of iron into the cells of the macrophage system, which is activated during various inflammatory (infectious and non-infectious) or tumor processes. According to the prevalence of AHZ, they occupy the 2nd place after iron deficiency anemia (IDA). The isolation of AHZ into a separate pathogenetic variant and awareness of it is important due to the similarity of this variant with IDA and some sideroachrestic anemia, although the essence and therapeutic approaches for these anemia are different. Keywords: anemia of chronic diseases; iron deficiency anemia; prevalence. Anemia