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

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Hematology · Georgetown University School of Medicine

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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