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Do you hold IV iron in the setting of active infection?

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Do you hold IV iron in the setting of infection?

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Hematology · Georgetown University School of Medicine
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While there is no evidence of harm, there is enough conjecture about the danger to make it prudent to wait until infection is controlled. So yes, I do. Further because of the iron restricted erythropoiesis during infection, the efficacy is likely to be blunted.

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