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Assessment of iron requirements during treatment of anemia with recombinant hum...

Iron deficiency occurs often in patients with recombinant human Erythropoietin (rhEPO) therapy in chronic renal failure (CRF) associated anemia. We have studied 10 patients with CRF on regular hemodialysis (HD), female = 8, male = 2, average age = 49 [32 to 72], time on HD 44.2 +/- 25.0 months. Before starting rhEPO, the mean hemoglobin value was 7.36 +/- 1.29 gr/dl, the mean ferritin 695.4 +/- 276.0 ng/ml, the...