Intravenous Iron Therapy in Patients with Iron Deficiency Anemia: Dosing Considerations.

Conclusions. Our data suggests that a total cumulative dose of 1000 mg of IV iron may be insufficient for iron repletion in a majority of patients with IDA and a dose of 1500 mg is closer to the actual iron deficit in these patients. PMID: 26257955 [PubMed]

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Source: Anemia - August 11, 2015 Category: Hematology Tags: Anemia Source Type: research

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