Anemia of chronic disease
By: edited by Günter Weiss, Victor R. Gordeuk, Chaim Hershko.
Contributors: Weiss, Günter, M.D.; Gordeuk, Victor R.; Hershko, Chaim.
Series: Basic and clinical oncology -- 30
Publisher: Taylor & Francis; CRC Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Boca Raton
Language: eng
Number of pages: 752
Subjects: Anemia; Chronic diseases -- Complications; Anemia -- etiology; Chronic Disease; Anemia -- therapy; Erythropoiesis; Erythropoietin; Iron -- metabolism; Neoplasms -- complications
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Regulation of iron metabolism / Kostas Pantopoulos; title: Erythropoietin and erythropoiesis / Eric Metzen and Wolfgang Jelkmann; title: Sepsis and systemic inflammatory response syndrome / Herbert Tilg; title: Disturbances of iron homeostasis / Victoriano Mulero and Jeremy H. Brock; title: Inhibition of erythropoiesis by inflammatory cytokines / Robert T. Means, Jr.; title: Endogenous erythropoietin in the anemia of chronic disorders / Yves Beguin; title: Erythrophagocytosis and decreased erythrocyte survival / J.J.M. Marx; title: New regulator molecules in anemia of chronic diseases / Olivier Loréal and Pierre Brissot; title: Iron withholding as a defense strategy / Eugene D. Weinberg; title: Iron, iron genes, and the immune system / C.S. Cardoso, G. Weiss, and M. de Sousa; title: Clinical approach to the patient with anemia of chronic disease / Victor R. Gordeuk; title: Usefulness of old and new diagnostic tests in ACD / Kari Punnonen and Allan Rajamaki; title: Treatment of ACD: an introduction / Günter Weiss; title: Human recombinant erythropoietin / Hanspreet Kaur, Alan Lichtin, and Deepjot Singh; title: Iron therapy and the anemia of chronic disease / Victor R. Gordeuk; title: Blood transfusions / Eleftherios C. Vamvakas; title: Iron and erythropoietin / Lawrence T. Goodnough; title: Positive effects of correction of anemia in malignant diseases / Gudrun Pohl and Heinz Ludwig; title: Putative negative effects of the correction of anemia in ACD / Günter Weiss; title: Anemia of chronic disease in hematologic disorders and oncology / Robert T. Means and Gordon D. McLaren; title: Anemia in cancer patients undergoing surgery / D. Öfner; title: Iron status, anemia of chronic disease, and infection / Johan R. Boelaert; title: ACD in inflammatory rheumatic diseases / J.P. Kaltwasser and U. Arndt; title: Anemia in intensive care patients / Albert van de Wiel; title: Anemia in renal disease / Jorge Luis Ajuria, Paul L. Kimmel, and Robert S. Siegal; title: Anemia of chronic disease in inflammatory bowel diseases / Christoph Gasche.