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Do you offer IV iron first line to women with iron deficiency anemia from heavy menstrual bleeding?

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Hematology · Georgetown University School of Medicine

I offer first-line IV iron because oral iron cannot keep up with the losses from heavy menstrual bleeding, and the majority can't tolerate it. I routinely give a gram of LMW iron dextran in one hour, Feraheme (not ferumoxytol generic) 1,020 mg in 30 minutes, or ferric derisomaltose 1 gram in 30 minu...

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