Table 1.
Common causes and correlates of anemia in kidney transplant recipientsa
| Age | Infection |
| Donor age | Inflammation |
| Gender | Malignancy |
| Graft dysfunction | Medications |
| acute rejection | RAAS inhibitors |
| chronic allograft | ACE inhibitors |
| nephropathy | ARB |
| Blood loss | immunosuppressants |
| acute | mycophenolate |
| chronic | azathioprine |
| Hemolysis | tacrolimus |
| Iron deficiency | sirolimus |
| absolute | trimethoprim- |
| functional | sulfametoxazole |
| Vitamin deficiency | ganciclovir |
| Hyperparathyroidism | Metabolic acidosis |
a
ACE, angiotensin-converting enzyme; ARB, angiotensin receptor blocker; RAAS, renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system.