Iron deficiency testing and treatment in heart failure: the eyes are useless when the mind is blind

Gema Miñana; Antoni Bayés-Genís; Julio Núñez

doi:10.1002/ejhf.2365

Iron deficiency testing and treatment in heart failure: the eyes are useless when the mind is blind

Eur J Heart Fail. 2021 Nov;23(11):1855-1857. doi: 10.1002/ejhf.2365. Epub 2021 Oct 27.

Authors

Gema Miñana^{1

2}, Antoni Bayés-Genís^{2

3

4}, Julio Núñez^{1

2}

Affiliations

¹ Cardiology Department and Heart Failure Unit, Hospital Clínico Universitario de Valencia, INCLIVA, Universitat de Valencia, Valencia, Spain.
² CIBER Cardiovascular, Madrid, Spain.
³ Cardiology Department and Heart Failure Unit, Hospital Universitari Germans Trias i Pujol, Badalona, Barcelona, Spain.
⁴ Department of Medicine, Autonomous University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.

PMID: 34655260
DOI: 10.1002/ejhf.2365

Abstract

Definition, clinical implications, and rate of iron deficiency assessment and treatment in the Swedish Heart Failure Registry. FCM, ferric carboxymaltose; HF, heart failue; ID, iron deficiency; TSAT, transferrin sauration.

Publication types

Editorial
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Comment

MeSH terms

Anemia, Iron-Deficiency* / diagnosis
Anemia, Iron-Deficiency* / drug therapy
Ferric Compounds / therapeutic use
Heart Failure* / drug therapy
Heart Failure* / therapy
Hospitalization
Humans
Iron Deficiencies*
Maltose / therapeutic use
Transferrin

Substances

Ferric Compounds
Transferrin
Maltose