Sep 7 to 14, 2010

2008 Japanese Society for Dialysis Therapy: guidelines for renal anemia in chronic kidney disease.

Tsubakihara Y, Nishi S, Akiba T, et al.

Ther Apher Dial 2010 Jun;14(3):240-75.

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Anemia management and mortality risk in incident hemodialysis patients.

Auerbach M

JAMA 2010 Jul 7;304(1):41-2; author reply 42-3.

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Erythrocyte indices in the assessment of iron status in dialysis-dependent patients with end-stage renal disease on continuous erythropoietin receptor activator versus epoetin beta therapy.

Jonckheere S, Dierick J, Vanhouteghem H, Devleeschouwer M, Stove V

Acta Haematol 2010;124(1):27-33. Epub 2010 Jul 7.

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This prospective study examined new markers for functional iron deficiency that have recently become available, namely reticulocyte hemoglobin equivalent ... 

ITO Textbook - Introduction: Iron Deficiency and Iron Therapy

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Intravenous iron supplementation for the treatment of anaemia in pre-dialyzed chronic renal failure patients.

Mircescu G, Garneata L, Capusa C, Ursea N

Nephrol Dial Transplant 2006 Jan;21(1):120-124.

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In this longitudinal, open-label, single arm prospective study, Mircescu et al. evaluated the effect of IV iron supplementation in predialysis CRF patients ... 

Administration of intravenous iron sucrose as a 2-minute push to CKD patients: A prospective evaluation of 2,297 injections.

Macdougall IC, Roche A

Am J Kidney Dis 2005 Aug;46(2):283-9.

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In this prospective cohort study Macdougall and Roche examine the safety of administering 200 mg intravenous (IV) iron sucrose as a push intravenous injection ...