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Title: Practical Guidance for Diagnosing and Treating Iron Deficiency in Patients with Heart Failure: Why, Who and How?
Author: Sindone, Andrew
Doehner, Wolfram
Manito, Nicolas
McDonagh, Theresa
Cohen-Solal, Alain
Damy, Thibaud
Núñez, Julio
Pfister, Otmar
Meer, Peter van der
Comin Colet, Josep
Keywords: Malalties del cor
Dèficit de ferro
Heart diseases
Iron deficiency diseases
Issue Date: 25-May-2022
Publisher: MDPI
Abstract: Iron deficiency (ID) is a comorbid condition frequently seen in patients with heart failure (HF). Iron has an important role in the transport of oxygen, and is also essential for skeletal and cardiac muscle, which depend on iron for oxygen storage and cellular energy production. Thus, ID per se, even without anaemia, can be harmful. In patients with HF, ID is associated with a poorer quality of life (QoL) and exercise capacity, and a higher risk of hospitalisations and mortality, even in the absence of anaemia. Despite its negative clinical consequences, ID remains under-recognised. However, it is easily diagnosed and managed, and the recently revised 2021 European Society of Cardiology (ESC) guidelines on HF provide specific recommendations for its diagnosis and treatment. Prospective randomised controlled trials in patients with symptomatic HF with reduced ejection fraction (HFrEF) show that correction of ID using intravenous iron (principally ferric carboxymaltose [FCM]) provides improvements in symptoms of HF, exercise capacity and QoL, and a recent trial demonstrated that FCM therapy following hospitalisation due to acute decompensated HF reduced the risk of subsequent HF hospitalisations. This review provides a summary of the epidemiology and pathophysiology of ID in HFrEF, and practical guidance on screening, diagnosing, and treating ID.
Note: Reproducció del document publicat a: https://doi.org/10.3390/jcm11112976
It is part of: Journal of Clinical Medicine, 2022, vol. 11, num. 11
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/2445/187069
Related resource: https://doi.org/10.3390/jcm11112976
ISSN: 2077-0383
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