People with anemia of chronic disease may have normal or even high levels of iron in the body’s tissues. But they have low iron in the blood and not enough healthy red blood cells. Several long ...

The question of how anemia worsens CHF was recently reviewed. [37] Anemia causes a fall in systemic vascular resistance, attributable, in part, to the reduced viscosity of the blood and ...

Anemia is common in patients who have both heart failure and chronic kidney disease, and there is an ... hemolysis of young circulating red blood cells) to EPO resistance. These possible causes ...

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 ...