Review Article
Atypical Clinical Manifestations of Graves' Disease: An Analysis in Depth
Table 2
Types of Anemia Associated with Graves’ disease (GD).
| | MCV¥ | Iron status# | Prevalence in GD patients | Response to GD treatment |
| GD Anemia | Low or normal | Normal or high | 22% | Y | Pernicious Anemia | High | Normal | 1.4% | N | Iron deficiency Anemia of Celiac Disease | Low | Low | 0.9% | N | Autoimmune Hemolytic Anemia | Normal or high | Normal | Only single case reports | Y* |
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Y: Yes; N: No, ¥mean corpuscular volume, #serum iron, serum ferritin, ±bone marrow iron stores, *may respond to thionamide drug therapy alone.
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