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Pediatric Oncology • Medical Oncology • Hematology • Pediatric Hematology • Benign Hematology
What is your preferred formulation of parenteral iron?
There are various formulations of intravenous iron; each with varying costs, test dose requirement, elemental dose, and number or time of infusions needed. How do you approach selecting the optimal formulation of intravenous iron and/or do you prefer certain ones in specific clinical scenarios (e.g. heart failure, CKD, pregnancy etc.)?
Answer from: Medical Oncologist at Academic Institution
The question is not simple. The formulation I use the most is ferumoxytol because four insurance carriers allow a total dose infusion of 1020 mg in 20-30 minutes. This has been published twice (Auerbach AJH, 2011 and Karki AJH 2019). Otherwise, it must be given as two 510 mg infusions on different d...
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