Iron deficiency anemia in pregnant women: 
On September 5-8, 2018 in St. Petersburg, the XXVI European Congress of Perinatal Medicine (ECPM 2018) was held. For the first time, Russia was chosen to host this major international event. At the opening ceremony, ECPM President Moshe Hod (Israel) stressed that anemia is the most common complication of pregnancy, to date, it suffers more than 56 million pregnant women around the world. On September 7, Irene Cetin, Full Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of Milan, Head of the Department of Mother and Child and the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology of Luigi Sacco University Hospital, Milan, Italy, made a presentation on the role of iron deficiency anemia in pregnancy and methods of its correction during the session «Complications of Pregnancy». During the presentation, Irene Cetin introduced Tardyferon as an optimal choice for the treatment and prevention of iron deficiency anemia in pregnant women and shared experience of using the drug.