Iron storage after total dose iron dextran (imferon) infusion

Twenty pregnant women who had been given total dose infusion (TDI) of iron dextran at Muhimbili Medical Centre; Dar es Salaam; Tanzania; had their bone marrows examined and red blood cell parameters measured. In 35 per cent of the study group there was no stainable iron in the marrow. The rest showed abnormally increased amounts of marrow iron; and in three of them there was normal in five and increased in the remainder. This increase was probably pregnancy induced