Abstract

Intravenous iron therapy for patients with heart failure: expanding body of evidence.

Highlights

  • Anaemia represents a common co-morbidity in patients with heart failure (HF)

  • As ferritin represents an acute phase mediator, these cut-off levels cannot be used in HF, a disease marked by chronic inflammation

  • In their post hoc analysis of FAIR-HF, Onoko et al confirmed that calculated plasma volume status predicts death and hospitalizations in a chronic HF cohort

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Summary

Christopher Adlbrecht

Anaemia (haemoglobin

Definition and core evidence for intravenous iron in heart failure
Hypersensitivity reactions of intravenous iron
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