Treatment of Anemia of Chronic Disease with True Iron Deficiency in Pregnancy.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

We assess and compare the efficacy of anemia treatment in pregnant women with anemia of chronic disease with true iron deficiency and in women with iron deficiency anemia.

Study design

Fifty patients with moderate anemia (hemoglobin 8.0-9.9 g/dl) and iron deficiency (ferritin < 15 μg/l) were treated in the Anemia Clinic at the Department of Obstetrics.

Results

All patients showed stimulation of erythropoiesis as evidenced by an increase in reticulocyte count at day eight of therapy and showed an increase in hemoglobin and hematocrit at the end of therapy (p < 0.001). The target hemoglobin (≥10.5 g/dl) was achieved in 45/50 women (90%). 12 patients showed anemia of chronic disease with true iron deficiency (12/50; 24%). Seven women (7/12; 59%) w

SUBMITTER: Amstad Bencaiova G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5733931 | biostudies-literature | 2017

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature