Red Blood Cell Transfusions

Iron deficiency during pregnancy went underrecognized and undertreated among a large sample of unique deliveries at Mayo Clinic, according to study results presented at ASH Annual Meeting and Exposition.

Oral vadadustat three times per week was noninferior to a long-acting erythropoiesis-stimulating agent for treating anemia in patients with chronic kidney disease on dialysis, according to study data.

Higher hemoglobin thresholds for red-cell transfusions in extremely-low-birth-weight infants with anemia did not improve their survival without neurodevelopmental impairment, researchers reported in the New England Journal of Medicine.

Frailty was linked to postprocedural bleeding in older patients undergoing transcatheter aortic valve replacement or surgical AVR, according to a study published in JACC: Cardiovascular Interventions.