Skin staining due to intravenous iron extravasation in a teenager with Crohn’s disease

A 17-year-old patient with Crohn’s disease underwent intravenous iron infusion (Ferinject [ferric carboxymaltose]) as treatment for iron deficiency anaemia (haemoglobin 103 g/L, ferritin 6 μg/L) as per the British Society of Paediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition1 guidelines (20 mg/kg, maximum of 1000 mg per single dose). Pain at the cannula site was reported during the infusion, which was immediately stopped, with the cannula...