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SUBMITTER: Roger SD
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5837517 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Roger Simon D SD Gaillard Carlo A CA Bock Andreas H AH Carrera Fernando F Eckardt Kai-Uwe KU Van Wyck David B DB Cronin Maureen M Meier Yvonne Y Larroque Sylvain S Macdougall Iain C IC
Nephrology, dialysis, transplantation : official publication of the European Dialysis and Transplant Association - European Renal Association 20170901 9
<h4>Background</h4>The evidence base regarding the safety of intravenous (IV) iron therapy in patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD) is incomplete and largely based on small studies of relatively short duration.<h4>Methods</h4>FIND-CKD (ClinicalTrials.gov number NCT00994318) was a 1-year, open-label, multicenter, prospective study of patients with nondialysis-dependent CKD, anemia and iron deficiency randomized (1:1:2) to IV ferric carboxymaltose (FCM), targeting higher (400-600 µg/L) or low ...[more]