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When Your Blood Can’t Breathe: Iron, Anaemia, and the Breathless Heart
Episode 13
Published 2 months ago
Description
When a patient arrives breathless and unable to climb a hill, the instinct is to blame the heart. Sometimes the answer lies in the blood itself. Iron deficiency anaemia reduces oxygen delivery, forces the heart into a hyperdynamic state, and can even produce a murmur over a completely normal valve.