Is Anemia in Chronic Heart Failure Caused by Iron Deficiency?

(1) might therefore result from a "reticuloendothelial block" rather than true iron deficiency. [...]the implementation of bone marrow aspiration to evaluate iron stores in anemic CHF patients, as suggested by the researchers, will fail to differentiate between nutritional iron deficiency...

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Published inJournal of the American College of Cardiology Vol. 49; no. 23; pp. 2301 - 2302
Main Authors Westenbrink, B. Daan, MD, Voors, Adriaan A., MD, PhD, van Veldhuisen, Dirk J., MD, PhD, FACC
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published United States Elsevier Inc 12.06.2007
Elsevier Limited
Subjects
Anemia
Anemia, Iron-Deficiency - etiology
Bone marrow
Cardiology
Cardiovascular
Chronic illnesses
Heart Failure - complications
Humans
Internal Medicine
Iron
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Summary:(1) might therefore result from a "reticuloendothelial block" rather than true iron deficiency. [...]the implementation of bone marrow aspiration to evaluate iron stores in anemic CHF patients, as suggested by the researchers, will fail to differentiate between nutritional iron deficiency and anemia of chronic disease.
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ISSN:0735-1097
1558-3597
DOI:10.1016/j.jacc.2007.04.003