Intravenous iron supplementation practices and short-term risk of cardiovascular events in hemodialysis patients.

Intravenous iron supplementation is widespread in the hemodialysis population, but there is uncertainty about the safest dosing strategy. We compared the safety of different intravenous iron dosing practices on the risk of adverse cardiovascular outcomes in a large population of hemodialysis patient...

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Main Authors: Abhijit V Kshirsagar, Janet K Freburger, Alan R Ellis, Lily Wang, Wolfgang C Winkelmayer, M Alan Brookhart
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3815308?pdf=render