Hepcidin Level And Iron Status In End Stage Renal Disease (ESRD) Patients /
مستوى الهيبسيدين ومؤشرات الحديد في مرضي الفشل الكلوي المزمن.
Essam Kotb Abd El Latif ; Tarek Zakaria El Baz, Hussein Chahine Abdel Al, Ahmed Alaa El Din Ahmed Saad, Wael Refaat Hablas, Fawzy Hamed Hassan.
- Cairo : Al Azhar University, 2011.
- 148 p. : ill. ; 29 cm + 1 CD.
Thesis (M.D.) – Al Azhar University- Faculty of Medicine.
Includes Bibliographical References.
Introduction : Patients with end stage renal diseases (ESRD) are in a continuous inflammatory process due to several factors. Anemia is a feature of renal failure mainly due to insufficient production of the hormone- erythropoietin (EPO) , which stimulates the bone marrow to produce mature red blood cells. Aim to work: Is To assess the hepcidin level and its relation to, inflammatory status , hemoglobin level, and iron status in patients with ESRD.