How do patients with iron-deficiency anemia present clinically in terms of symptoms, signs, and laboratory abnormalities?
- Pica
- Pallor
- Weakness
- Palpitations
- Koilonychia
- High-output congestive heart failure
- Dyspnea on exertion
- Orthostatic symptoms
- Microcytic, hypochromic indices for erythrocytes
- Percent iron saturation <16%
