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Is it possible for an anemia of chronic disease, which needs iv iron transfusion, to precipitate to encephalopathy in a setting of extreme stress?
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Encephalopathy: Not really, it seems more of a psychosomatic phenomena, way you have described it
Answered 5/16/2015
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