Anemia of chronic disease (ACD)vis a low red blood cell count (anemia) that occurs due to inflammation from an underlying ...

Iron deficiency may also play an important role in this anemia because improvement in CHF has been seen with IV iron treatment alone. We call the interaction between chronic renal failure ...

As mentioned, the same mechanism is present in low-output CHF so that we have two diseases, anemia and CHF, with the same pathophysiology.