What is your diagnosis, What is your diagnosis? What type

What is your diagnosis

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Assignment:

Patient: 10-year-old African American female

CC: "My child been anemic, I want another opinion"

HPI: Mother reports child being treated for anemia for one year without change in status at

another practice. She comes for a second opinion. There are no other complaints

PMH: anemia, treated with iron daily

Allergies: none

Medications: Iron (assume appropriate dose)

Social: good student, physically active, denies smoking, drinking, drugs, sexual activity

FH: mother and older male sibling have a history of anemia

ROS: not contributory

Hemoglobin: 10.2

INITIAL QUESTIONS:

1. What are this patient's differential diagnoses?

2. What tests would you order?

SECONDARY QUESTIONS (open blood work):

1. What is your diagnosis?

2. What type of anemia does this patient have and what is the cause?

3. Would you treat this patient with iron?

4. Are referrals necessary? If so, to whom? If not, justify your answer.

5. There is a second document in case study 4, labeled "document two" which belongs to the sibling who received testing. What is different between the documents and how is this clinically significant?

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