ALLMedicine™ Anemia Center

Sep 26th, 2021 - Progression of renal anemia has been shown to be associated with advanced renal tubulointerstitial lesions. This retrospective study investigated the impact of lower hemoglobin (Hb) levels and renal interstitial fibrosis and tubular atrophy (IFTA)...

Sep 26th, 2021 - Anemia is one of the most frequent complications in patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD). Despite being multifactorial, the relative or absolute deficiency of erythropoietin production is the leading cause. Recent studies have shown that ure...

Sep 25th, 2021 - Cancer, a disease of unknown origin is the second most common reason of death worldwide after heart attacks and therefore is a major threat to human beings. Currently, chemotherapy is the only approach for delivering anti-cancer drugs but shows se...

Sep 24th, 2021 - Spur cell hemolytic anemia (SCHA) is a rare, acquired, non-immune hemolytic anemia of decompensated cirrhosis. Data describing prognostic impact, outcomes of liver transplant, and clinical hematologic characteristics of SCHA are absent or limited....

Sep 24th, 2021 - Fanconi anemia (FA) is a rare disease characterized by progressive bone marrow failure, cancer predisposition, and multiple systemic malformations, including congenital abnormalities of the kidney and urinary tract (CAKUT). Hematopoietic cell tran...

Apr 12th, 2021 - In chronic kidney disease, anemia and disordered iron homeostasis are prevalent and associated with significant adverse consequences. In 2012, Kidney Disease: Improving Global Outcomes (KDIGO) issued an anemia guideline for managing the diagnosis,...

Aug 31st, 2020 - GI Evaluation of Iron Deficiency Anemia: Clinical Decision Support Tool.|2020| ,|blood,diagnosis,etiology,standards,methods,standards,standards,diagnostic imaging,metabolism,pathology,standards,blood,complications,diagnosis,pathology,analysis,diag...

Aug 31st, 2020 - Spotlight: Gastrointestinal Evaluation of Iron Deficiency Anemia.|2020|Ko CW,Siddique SM,Patel A,Harris A,Altayar O,|blood,diagnosis,etiology,standards,standards,standards,diagnostic imaging,metabolism,pathology,standards,blood,complications,diagn...

Aug 19th, 2020 - AGA Clinical Practice Guidelines on the Gastrointestinal Evaluation of Iron Deficiency Anemia.|2020|Ko CW,Siddique SM,Patel A,Harris A,Sultan S,|blood,diagnosis,epidemiology,etiology,standards,standards,diagnostic imaging,metabolism,pathology,stan...

Apr 11th, 2019 - To update the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO)/American Society of Hematology (ASH) recommendations for use of erythropoiesis-stimulating agents (ESAs) in patients with cancer. PubMed and the Cochrane Library were searched for randomiz...

Oct 27th, 2017 - BACKGROUND: Aplastic anemia (AA) remains a life-threatening illness. Treatment options include supportive care (transfusions, growth factors, etc.), immunosuppression therapy and stem cell transplantation. Only the latter two have favorably impact...

Jun 29th, 2016 - The trial proposed is a single arm phase II multicenter treatment protocol designed to examine engraftment, toxicity, graft-versus-host disease, and ultimate disease-free survival following a novel cytoreductive regimen including busulfan, cycloph...

Jul 16th, 2021 - An advisory committee to the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has overwhelmingly rejected the approval application for roxadustat, a novel, oral agent for the treatment of anemia secondary to chronic kidney disease (CKD). The committee voted ...

Jul 15th, 2021 - NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - When chronic graft-versus-host disease (GVHD) follows an allogeneic stem-cell transplant, and it's either resistant to standard glucocorticoid therapy or dependent on glucocorticoids, ruxolitinib is better than other tr...

Jul 15th, 2021 - (Reuters) - Anemia should probably be added to the list of risk factors for poorer COVID-19 outcomes, researchers say. They studied 374 COVID-19 survivors who were hospitalized and then released, with tests showing they had cleared the virus. They...

Jul 12th, 2021 - People with chronic kidney disease (CKD) who are not dependent on dialysis and have iron deficiency show significant increases in the risk of major adverse cardiovascular events (MACE) and death, regardless of whether or not they have anemia, new ...

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