Post-Transplantation Anemia Linked With Adverse Outcomes
Clinicians should screen kidney transplant recipients for post-transplantation anemia and carefully weigh the potential risks and benefits of treatment.
Clinicians should screen kidney transplant recipients for post-transplantation anemia and carefully weigh the potential risks and benefits of treatment.
Significant associations seen for functional iron deficiency with coronary heart disease, cardiovascular mortality, all-cause mortality
Emerging data demonstrate that iron is an important regulator of FGF23.
Blood urea nitrogen (BUN) in NDD-CKD represents nitrogenous uremic toxin accumulation that could be involved in anemia of CKD.
The factors that may account for any excess stroke risk among ESA users remain unclear.
The FDA noted that the application could not be approved in its present form and had requested an additional clinical study be conducted.
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