Contrast material caused a small but significant increase in Cr blood level in high-risk patients. There is no advantage of dopamine over adequate hydration in patients with mild to moderate renal failure or DM undergoing coronary angiography. Dopamine should be avoided in patients with PVD exposed to contrast medium.
The diagnostic usefulness of bone marrow hemosiderin, serum ferritin, transferrin saturation, mean corpuscular volume (MCV) and red cell protoporphyrin (EPP) in the evaluation of iron status in patients on chronic hemodialysis was studied in 39 subjects. The correlation between serum ferritin and the number of transfusions received per month was slightly higher (r = 0.717; p < 0.001) than the correlation between bone marrow hemosiderin and transfusions (r = 0.685; p < 0.01). Serum ferritin was useful in identifying subjects with both increased or reduced iron stores. In contrast, transferrin saturation could only be used for indicating iron overload. MCV for indicating iron deficiency, and EPP was not useful in either case. The abnormal increase of EPP in chronic uremia has not been previously described. It is unrelated to iron deficiency and is most probably explained by the known reduction in red cell ferrochelatase activity associated with chronic uremia. Serum ferritin is clearly the most useful diagnostic aid for assessing iron stores in patients on chronic hemodialysis. Whether ferritin is also the best predictor of response to iron therapy, cannot be determined on the basis of the present data.
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