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I'm being admitted to hospital for severely low iron and protein deficiency what will happen in hospital?
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Workup: You will likely be given infusions to normalize your values and more labs for workup of underlying factors for the low iron and protein deficiency. Nutritional status evaluation.
Answered 3/19/2017
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