Can the Response to Iron Therapy Be Predicted in Anemic Nondialysis Patients with Chronic Kidney Disease? | Zendy

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Can the Response to Iron Therapy Be Predicted in Anemic Nondialysis Patients with Chronic Kidney Disease?

Author(s) -

Simona Stancu,

Liliana Bârsan,

Ana Stanciu,

Gabriel Mircescu

Publication year - 2009

Publication title -

clinical journal of the american society of nephrology

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 2.755

H-Index - 151

eISSN - 1555-905X

pISSN - 1555-9041

DOI - 10.2215/cjn.04280609

Subject(s) - medicine , transferrin saturation , anemia , ferritin , kidney disease , iron deficiency , gastroenterology , hemoglobin , peripheral , bone marrow , iron sucrose , intravenous iron

Anemia is iron responsive in 30 to 50% of nondialysis patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD), but the utility of bone marrow iron stores and peripheral iron indices to predict the erythropoietic response is not settled. We investigated the accuracy of peripheral and central iron indices to predict the response to intravenous iron in nondialysis patients with CKD and anemia.

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