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Rationale and design of Ferinject® Assessment in patients with IRon deficiency and chronic Heart Failure (FAIR‐HF) study: a randomized, placebo‐controlled study of intravenous iron supplementation in patients with and without anaemia
- Source :
- European Journal of Heart Failure
- Publication Year :
- 2009
- Publisher :
- Wiley, 2009.
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Abstract
- AIMS: Iron deficiency (ID) and anaemia are common in patients with chronic heart failure (CHF). The presence of anaemia is associated with increased morbidity and mortality in CHF, and ID is a major reason for the development of anaemia. Preliminary studies using intravenous (i.v.) iron supplementation alone in patients with CHF and ID have shown improvements in symptom status. FAIR-HF (Clinical Trials.gov NCT00520780) was designed to determine the effect of i.v. iron repletion therapy using ferric carboxymaltose on self-reported patient global assessment (PGA) and New York Heart Association (NYHA) in patients with CHF and ID. METHODS AND RESULTS: This is a multi-centre, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled study recruiting ambulatory patients with symptomatic CHF with LVEF < or = 40% (NYHA II) or < or =45% (NYHA III), ID [ferritin
- Subjects :
- Male
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Details
- ISSN :
- 18790844, 13889842, and 00520780
- Volume :
- 11
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- European Journal of Heart Failure
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....64164225c2d45253651fea8a53196c7f