Treatment of infections and inflammations 3. Blood Transfusions Providing red blood cell transfusions for bleeding and severe chronic anemias. Red Cell Transfusions are the old mainstay which offers the quickest relief for anemias. This, in turn, will help deliver more oxygen to the tissues and resolve some of the symptoms of weakness and fatigue. Patients who cannot produce adequate erythropoietin due to liver or kidney disease may also be helped by epoetin alfa injections.
Erythropoietin is generally well tolaerated.
It can cause growth of some tumors, especially myeloid leukemia.