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- Title
The role of iron status markers in predicting response to intravenous iron in haemodialysis patients on maintenance erythropoietin.
- Authors
Tessitore, Nicola; Solero, Giovanni Pietro; Lippi, Giuseppe; Bassi, Antonella; Faccini, Giovanni Battista; Bedogna, Valeria; Gammaro, Linda; Brocco, Giorgio; Restivo, Giuseppe; Bernich, Patrizia; Lupo, Antonio; Maschio, Giuseppe
- Abstract
Background. Iron deficiency (ID) is the main cause of hyporesponsiveness to erythropoietin in haemodialysis patients and its detection is of value since it is easily corrected by intravenous iron. Markers of iron supply to the erythron, including erythrocyte zinc protoporphyrin (Er‐ZPP), percentage of hypochromic erythrocytes (Hypo), reticulocyte haemoglobin content (CHr) and soluble transferrin receptor (sTfR), may be more accurate predictors of ID than ferritin (Fer) and transferrin saturation (TSat), but relative diagnostic power and best threshold values are not yet established.
- Publication
Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation, 2001, Vol 16, Issue 7, p1416
- ISSN
0931-0509
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/ndt/16.7.1416