Clinical data for intravenous iron – debunking the hype around hypersensitivity

Transfusion

Volumn 60, Issue 6, 2020, Pages 1154-1159

  Achebe, Maureen ^a   DeLoughery, Thomas G ^b  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FERRIC CARBOXYMALTOSE; FERUMOXYTOL; IRON ISOMALTOSE; IRON SACCHARATE; ANTIANEMIC AGENT; IRON;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ALLERGIC REACTION; ANAPHYLAXIS; ANGINA PECTORIS; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; BRONCHOSPASM; CHEST TIGHTNESS; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG SAFETY; DYSPNEA; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; IRON DEFICIENCY; IRON DEFICIENCY ANEMIA; LEUKOCYTOSIS; MORBIDITY; NAUSEA; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); SWELLING; BLOOD; DRUG HYPERSENSITIVITY;

DRUG HYPERSENSITIVITY; HEMATINICS; HUMANS; IRON; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC;

EID: 85085888575     PISSN: 00411132     EISSN: 15372995     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/trf.15837     Document Type: Article

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