What Is an Iron Infusion? Iron is a mineral your body needs to make hemoglobin, the part of red blood cells that carries oxygen to all your organs and tissues. An iron infusion is a treatment for low ...

In a rigorous medical records study covering tens of thousands of patients, Johns Hopkins Medicine researchers conclude that some patients with preoperative anemia have better outcomes if they get ...

This Journal feature begins with a case vignette that includes a therapeutic recommendation. A discussion of the clinical problem and the mechanism of benefit of this form of therapy follows. Major ...

Change in clinical practice would have clear benefits for patients undergoing major bowel surgery, according to analysis conducted by researchers from UCL and the Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital. The ...

Changing where a newborn baby is held before its umbilical cord is clamped could lead to improved uptake in hospitals of delayed cord clamping, leading to a decreased risk of iron deficiency in ...

As one of the 1.1 million Australians who are currently affected by iron deficiency – and having battled with chronically low iron for many years – I understand first-hand how debilitating symptoms ...

Patients who had increased comorbidities or underwent simultaneous bilateral total knee arthroplasty or revision surgery had an increased risk for transfusion compared with healthy patients who ...

THE purpose of this report is to call attention to one of the complications of the recently recognized syndrome known as fetomaternal transfusion. A number of reports 1–7 have described a clinical ...

To investigate the fertility of male patients with transfusion-dependent beta-thalassemia, and to use magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) as a novel method to assess the iron overload status of testis in ...