A story as so many?
In 1989, I’ve got suddenly a lot of weight loss with abdominal pain and was admitted to hospital. There were a number of diagnoses identified: a HFE HEREDITARY HAEMOCHROMATOSIS (is an excessive intestinal absortion of dietary iron which can gives a result in a pathological increase of the pancreas, liver, etc. [ICD-10 E83.1]) (including a number of liver biopsies) resulting in a CHRONIC PANCREATITIS (an inflammation of the pancreas [ICD-10 K86.0, K86.1]) together with some other diseases. After a surgical removal of the pancreastail, many tests and some treatments later, I was implanted a morphine pump somewhat three years later. Phebotomies (by venesection) is among other things a part of my life.
Two years ago (2015), the doctors found a PANCETOPENIA (a medical condition in which there is a reduction in the number of red and white blood cells, as well as platelets [ICD-10 D61.9]) in the blood during the implantation of an already fifth morphine pump and also identified a MYELODYSPLASTIC SYNDROME (MDS) (immature blood cells in the bone marrow and do not become healthy blood cells [ICD-10: D46]).
In 2017 I found Diseasemaps ...
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