Influence of serum transferrin concentration on diagnostic criteria for iron deficiency in chronic heart failure.

Fraser J GrahamPierpaolo PellicoriGabriele MasiniJoseph J CuthbertAndrew L ClarkJohn G F Cleland

Published in: ESC heart failure (2023)

Many patients with CHF and a low STC have low SIC even when TSAT is >20% and serum ferritin >100 μg/L; such patients have a high prevalence of anaemia and a poor prognosis and might have iron deficiency but are currently excluded from clinical trials of iron repletion.

Keyphrases

iron deficiency
poor prognosis
ejection fraction
clinical trial
end stage renal disease
long non coding rna
newly diagnosed
chronic kidney disease
prognostic factors
peritoneal dialysis
open label