Chronic renal failure - anaemia
Description
- Normochromic, normocytic, hypoproliferative anaemia with an inappropriately low reticulocyte count
- Multifactorial - EPO deficiency is only part of it
- Appears from CKD G3a, near-universal by G5 (~51% at eGFR <30)
- *Anaemia of CKD is a diagnosis of exclusion* - always exclude iron, B12/folate deficiency, blood loss, haemolysis and myeloma first
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