TY - JOUR JF - MJIRI JO - Med J Islam Repub Iran VL - 11 IS - 4 PY - 1998 Y1 - 1998/2/01 TI - IMPROVING ERYTHROPOIESIS BY HEMODIALYSIS: RELATIONSHIP WITH A DEQUACY, FREQUENCY A ND DURATION OF DIALYSIS TT - N2 - Serum erythropoietin (EPO) concentration was measured by an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) in 31 cases of chronic renal failure (CRF), including 20 hemodialysis (HD) patients, and compared with that of 31 healthy normal controls. Each patient served as a self-control comparing his or her pretreatment level with post-treatment values. There was a significant negative correlation between serum EPO and serum iron ( SI) concentration in HD patients (p SP - 299 EP - 302 AU - KHAJEHDEHI, P AU - GHALAMBOR, MA AD - From the Division of Nephrology, Department of Internal Medicine, School of Medicine, KW - Erythropoietin KW - anemia KW - chronic renal failure KW - hemodialysis. UR - http://mjiri.iums.ac.ir/article-1-1070-en.html ER -