Abstract
SummaryThe effect of blood transfusions has been examined from the viewpoint of treatment for anemia and as a specific treatment of rheumatoid arthritis. A correlation between clinical improvement and increase in hemoglobin value and decrease in sedimentation rate is noted.Other factors seem not to be of importance. Iron treatment does not give the same effect in blood values and the superiority of blood transfusion is stressive. The effect of transfusion is of short duration and has probably no influence on the real cause of the anemia of rheumatoid arthritis.The occurrence of an erythropoietic factor produced in the kidneys has been shown by S. Osnes. The possibility of using this factor as a therapeutic agent is mentioned.
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