Conditions: Renal Failure Chronic Anemia
Keywords: Hemodialysis
Allocation: RANDOMIZED | Intervention model: PARALLEL
Enrollment: 197
Healthy volunteers: no

Brief summary:
The purpose of the study is to identify predictors of treatment response. This involves collected baseline clinical parameters and bloods for biochemical parameters prior to administering the study treatment. A positive outcome following treatment was defined as an uptitration of haemoglobin by greater than 5g/l within 2 months. The study evaluated the participants response to treatment against the clinical and biochemical information collected prior to treatment being received.

Detailed description:

Arms:
arm 1: None arm 2: None

Interventions: intervention 1: Iron Sucrose Solution for Injection intervention 2: Epoetin Beta
Intervention descriptions: intervention 1: 200mg iron sucrose given on 5 successive haemodialysis sessions intervention 2: Uptitration of epoetin beta dose. Scale as follows (in units /session): 0-1000-2000-3000-4000-6000-8000-12000

Protocol document: