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. 2018 Mar 29;10(4):428. doi: 10.3390/nu10040428

Figure 1.

Figure 1

Protocol of iron therapy. Fifty-one consecutive hemodialysis (HD) patients with iron deficiency anemia (IDA) and minor inflammation were first treated with oral ferrous fumarate (50 mg/day). At 3 months after oral iron therapy (OIT), the patients were classified into two groups; OIT-responders and OIT-nonresponders. OIT was continued in 39 OIT-responders for another 4 months. OIT was switched to intravenous iron therapy (IIT; saccharated ferric oxide: 40 mg × 13 times for another 4 months) in the remaining 12 OIT-nonresponders. All patients simultaneously received a continuous erythropoietin receptor activator (CERA) during the study period.