Differential diagnosis
Infrequent
- Coeliac disease
- Colorectal cancer
- Bleeding peptic ulcer
- Peptic ulcer disease
- HELLP syndrome
- Crohn's disease
- Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma
- Colonic diverticular bleeding
- Myeloma
- Acute myeloid leukaemia
- Myelodysplastic syndrome
Rare
- Gastric cancer
- Bladder cancer
- Microscopic colitis
- Haemolytic uraemic syndrome
- Hodgkin's lymphoma
- Chronic lymphocytic leukaemia
- Malaria (Falciparum)
- Ulcerative colitis
- Mycoplasma pneumonia
- Acute lymphoblastic leukaemia
- Hereditary haemorrhagic telangiectasia
- Chronic myeloid leukaemia
- Myelofibrosis
- Waldenstrom's macroglobulinaemia
- Malaria (Falciparum)
- Iliopsoas abscess
- Lead poisoning
- Whipple's disease
Specific differential diagnosis
TYPES
Macrocytic anaemiaMicrocytic anaemia
Normocytic anaemia