Hematology

Patients with haematologic malignancies appear to have a greater risk of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection and severe disease due to myelosuppression.

Hepcidin, the liver peptide hormone that regulates plasma iron concentration by blocking ferroportin function,4 is at the crossroad between iron metabolism and inflammation, being positively regulated by iron itself and proinflammatory cytokines,5 and may represent the link between iron deficiency and COVID-19 severity.

Anaemia is a public health problem. Two aetiologies of microcytic anaemia are relatively common in Tunisia: iron deficiency anaemia (IDA)…

Myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS) are clonal haematopoietic disorders of pluripotent stem cells, characterised by ineffective haematopoiesis…