Improvement of anemia with erythropoietin and intravenous iron reduces sleep-related breathing disorders and improves daytime sleepiness in anemic patients with congestive heart failure

American Heart Journal

Volumn 154, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 870-876

  Zilberman, Maya ^a   Silverberg, Donald S ^b   Bits, Irene ^c   Steinbruch, Shoshana ^b   Wexler, Dov ^b   Sheps, David ^b   Schwartz, Doron ^b   Oksenberg, Arie ^d  

^a BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV SOURASKY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^c Zamenoff Nephrology Clinic   (Israel)

^d LOEWENSTEIN REHABILITATION HOSPITAL   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ERYTHROPOIETIN; IRON;

ADULT; AGED; ANEMIA; ARTICLE; BREATHING DISORDER; CARDIOMYOPATHY; CHEYNE STOKES BREATHING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EPWORTH SLEEPINESS SCALE; FEMALE; HEMOGLOBIN BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; MALE; OXYGEN SATURATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOMNOLENCE; UNITED STATES; VALVULAR HEART DISEASE;

AGED; ANEMIA, IRON-DEFICIENCY; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; ERYTHROPOIETIN; FEMALE; FERRIC COMPOUNDS; FERRITINS; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEART FAILURE, CONGESTIVE; HEMATINICS; HUMANS; INJECTIONS, INTRAVENOUS; INJECTIONS, SUBCUTANEOUS; MALE; POLYSOMNOGRAPHY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SLEEP; SLEEP APNEA SYNDROMES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 35448955759     PISSN: 00028703     EISSN: 10976744     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ahj.2007.07.034     Document Type: Article

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