Iron deficiency anemia in pregnancy: evaluation and management

Obuchowska, Aleksandra, Standyło, Arkadiusz, Obuchowska, Karolina, Gorczyca, Kamila, Kimber-Trojnar, Żaneta, Leszczyńska-Gorzelak, Bożena. Iron deficiency anemia in pregnancy: evaluation and management. Journal of Education, Health and Sport. 2022;12(9):168-174. eISSN 2391-8306. DOI http://dx.doi.org/10.12775/JEHS.2022.12.09.021 https://apcz.umk.pl/JEHS/article/view/39539 https://zenodo.org/record/7034352 The journal has had 40 points in Ministry of Education and Science of Poland parametric evaluation. Annex to the announcement of the Minister of Education and Science of December 21, 2021. No. 32343. Has a Journal's Unique Identifier: 201159. Scientific disciplines assigned: Physical Culture Sciences (Field of Medical sciences and health sciences); Health Sciences (Field of Medical Sciences and Health Sciences). Punkty Ministerialne z 2019 - aktualny rok 40 punktów. Załącznik do komunikatu Ministra Edukacji i Nauki z dnia 21 grudnia 2021 r. Lp. 32343. Posiada Unikatowy Identyfikator Czasopisma: 201159. Przypisane dyscypliny naukowe: Nauki o kulturze fizycznej (Dziedzina nauk medycznych i nauk o zdrowiu); Nauki o zdrowiu (Dziedzina nauk medycznych i nauk o zdrowiu). © The Authors 2022; This article is published with open access at Licensee Open Journal Systems of Nicolaus Copernicus University in Torun, Poland Open Access. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial License which permits any noncommercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author (s) and source are credited. This is an open access article licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non commercial license Share alike. (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/) which permits unrestricted, non commercial use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the work is properly cited. The authors declare that there is no conflict of interests regarding the publication of this paper. Received: 08.08.2022. Revised: 10.08.2022. Accepted: 28.08.2022. Iron deficiency anemia in pregnancy: evaluation and management Aleksandra Obuchowska1, Arkadiusz Standyło2*, Karolina Obuchowska2, Kamila Gorczyca2*, Żaneta Kimber-Trojnar1, Bożena Leszczyńska-Gorzelak1 1 Department of Obstetrics and Perinatology, Medical University of Lublin, 20-090 Lublin, Poland 2 Student's Scientific Association at the Department of Obstetrics and Perinatology, Medical University of Lublin, 20-090 Lublin, Poland * Author to whom correspondence should be addressed Abstract: Anemia is a condition in which the number of red blood cells (RBC) is insufficient to meet the body's physiological needs for oxygen transport. A limiting factor for the erythrocyte mass increase is iron deficiency, which can also have a negative impact on the pregnancy's prognosis. The most frequent pathogenic cause of anemia in pregnancy is iron deficiency anemia (IDA). Biochemical tests such as serum iron concentration, total iron binding capacity (TIBC), transferrin concentration, and ferritin concentration are decreased in iron deficiency anemia. In clinical practice, iron deficiency is defined as low serum ferritin or a decreased percentage of transferrin saturation by iron. Usually, the diagnosis begins with the determination of serum ferritin. Although iron supplementation for iron deficiency is advised as soon as the condition has been diagnosed, prophylactic iron delivery is still under discussion. In patients for whom oral iron is ineffective or contraindicated, intravenous iron can be used to restore lost iron. Keywords: iron deficiency; iron deficiency anemia; iron supplementation; pregnancy