Zinc Ingestion

• Sideroblastic Anemia (see Anemia): associated with excessive and prolonged zinc ingestion -> mechanism is zinc-induced copper deficiency
  • Resolves with cessation of zinc ingestion

Zinc Deficiency

• Anemia (see Anemia)

References

• Zinc-induced sideroblastic anemia: report of a case, review of the literature, and description of the hematologic syndrome. Am J Hematol. 1994 Jun;46(2):147-50