The Level of Erythropoietin and Renal Function in Anemic Patients With Chronic Heart Failure in the Presence of Diabetic Nephropathy

Abstract

The study showed that patients with anemia, which developed on a background of chronic heart failure, found decreased levels of erythropoietin and increased microalbuminuria both in diabetic and hypertensive nephropathy. The presence of anemia in patients with chronic heart failure and diabetic nephropathy is associated with inadequately low central regulator of erythropoiesis in response to low concentrations of hemoglobin on a base of moderate slowing glomerular filtrating rate, as evidenced by minimum levels of erythropoietin in presence of microalbuminuria.