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To the Editor: In an excellent discussion of iron deficiency, Oski (July 15 issue)¹ did not mention the existence of the serious yet reversible complication of increased intracranial pressure leading to pseudotumor cerebri. As early as the 1880s and 1890s, Gowers² and subsequently Bannister³ and others made the association of iron-responsive anemia (then termed "chlorosis") and papilledema (then termed "retinopapillitis" or "optic neuritis"). Their patients were young women with severe headaches, visual symptoms, and iron-deficiency anemia, presenting acutely with papilledema and increased intracranial pressure, or what we now know to be pseudotumor cerebri⁴. Because of the papilledema and headaches, . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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