normo1.flv
Channel: OER Africa
Date: 22/11/2011

In anaemia of chronic disease, there is a failure of erythroid proliferation. Therefore, the RBC count is reduced, but the histogram in normal. The MCV may be lower in a minority of cases, but the RDW should remain normal. Increased RDW distinguishes iron deficiency from anaemia of chronic disease and from heterozygous thalassemia