EPO and anemia (phenotype): Severe anaemia aetiologies can be grouped into hyporegenerative (anaemias due to iron and other nutritional deficiencies, pure red cell aplasia, anaemia of inflammation, aplastic anaemia, erythropoietin underproduction, and marrow infiltration), and regenerative (anaemias due to haemolysis, immune dysregulation, haemorrhage, and non-immune factors (haemoglobinopathies, drugs, microangiopathy, and hypersplenism)) [14].