Iron therapy in heart failure patients without anaemia: possible implications for chronic kidney disease patients.

ABSTRACT: Iron deficiency anaemia is a global health problem that manifests as fatigue and poor physical endurance. Anaemia can be caused by dietary iron deficiency, blood loss or a combination of poor iron absorption and ineffective iron mobilization in patients with chronic disease. Nephrologists caring for patients with impaired renal function understand that iron treatment is necessary to provide adequate iron for erythropoiesis during the treatment of overt anaemia. However, a less well-understood health problem is iron deficiency, which creates symptoms that overlap with those of anaemia and often occurs in concert with chronic disease. Recently, several randomized controlled clinical trials have been conducted to investigate the effects of treatment with intravenous iron in heart failure pati

SUBMITTER: Malyszko J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5716152 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature