SERUM FERRITIN CONCENTRATION IN PATIENTS RECEIVING MAINTENANCE HEMODIALYSIS

  • 1 January 1980
    • journal article
    • research article
    • Vol. 14  (3) , 124-127
Abstract
Studies in 144 patients on maintenance hemodialysis showed that serum ferritin concentration is influenced by the period the patient had been on dialysis, the presence of liver disease and to some extent the underlying diagnosis. Parenteral Fe therapy could produce an increase in Hb concentration when the serum ferritin was as high as 50-55 .mu.g/l. This suggests that the target serum ferritin, whatever the route of Fe replacement, should be at least 55 .mu.g/l. The higher levels of ferritin at which an increase in Hb concentration can occur, together with the variable increment in serum ferritin after parenteral Fe, indicates that the simple relationship between serum ferritin and marrow Fe stores may be disturbed in some patients.

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