| Literature DB >> 16595992 |
Terumi Higuchi1, Yoshihiro Matsukawa, Kazuyoshi Okada, Osamu Oikawa, Toshio Yamazaki, Yoshihiko Ohnishi, Takayuki Fujita, Noboru Fukuda, Masayoshi Soma, Koichi Matsumoto.
Abstract
We have encountered five hemodialysis patients who had received enteral nutrition and recovered from erythropoietin-resistant anemia with neutropenia after the correction of copper deficiency. We reduced the required doses of recombinant human erythropoietin (rHuEPO) to maintain the target hematocrit levels and three patients were finally weaned from the rHuEPO therapy. Thus, copper deficiency is involved in erythropoietin-resistant anemia in hemodialysis patients.Entities:
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Year: 2006 PMID： 16595992 DOI： 10.2169/internalmedicine.45.1541
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Intern Med ISSN： 0918-2918 Impact factor: 1.271