Alcohol and the blood

Med Clin North Am. 1984 Jan;68(1):105-20. doi: 10.1016/s0025-7125(16)31244-5.

Abstract

Pathologic effects of ethanol on hematopoietic tissue can result directly from alcohol ingestion or from secondary nutritional deficiencies or hepatic disease. The clinician will often confront an array of overlapping syndromes in the alcoholic patient which involve abnormalities of erythrocytes, leukocytes, and platelets.

Publication types

  • Review

MeSH terms

  • Alcoholic Intoxication / complications*
  • Alcoholism / complications*
  • Anemia / chemically induced*
  • Anemia / complications
  • Anemia / physiopathology
  • Anemia, Sideroblastic / chemically induced
  • Anemia, Sideroblastic / complications
  • Blood Cells / drug effects*
  • Blood Cells / pathology
  • Ethanol / pharmacology*
  • Fatty Liver / complications
  • Folic Acid Deficiency / chemically induced
  • Folic Acid Deficiency / complications
  • Hematopoiesis / drug effects*
  • Hemosiderosis / complications
  • Hemosiderosis / physiopathology
  • Hemostasis / drug effects*
  • Humans
  • Liver Cirrhosis / complications
  • Liver Cirrhosis / physiopathology*
  • Liver Cirrhosis / therapy

Substances

  • Ethanol