Death after Intravenous Iron

Severe hypophosphataemia after intravenous iron administration

Currently, in many centres, intravenous administration of iron is becoming increasingly popular because of higher efficacy and decreased side effects, mainly gastrointestinal, compared with oral iron therapy. Studies of intravenous ferric carboxymaltose administration in the postpartum setting and in patients with non-dialysis-dependent chronic kidney disease revealed a decrease in serum phosph...

Death from pulmonary microembolisation after intravenous injection of temazepam.

Dr E J VELLA (Pathology Laboratory, Lakin Road, Warwick CV34 5BJ) and Dr C W EDWARDS (Departme9e of Pathology, East Birmingham Hospital, Birmingham B9 5ST) write: A 31 year old female drug misuser presented with pain in her right leg. She told the casualty doctor that a few hours previously she had crushed a few 10 mg tablets of temazepam, dissolved them in water, and injected the solution intr...

Iron metabolism; utilization of intravenous radioactive iron.

T HE HUMAN body shows great economy in its handling of iron. Only small amounts of iron arefound in the excreta, and these amounts cannot be appreciably increased through loading body iron stores by oral ingestion,’ by parenteral iron administration2 or by multiple blood transfusions.3 These observations imply that iron is rigidly conserved by the body and that no attention need be directed tow...

Iron Metabolism Utilization of Intravenous Radioactive Iron

T HE HUMAN body shows great economy in its handling of iron. Only small amounts of iron arefound in the excreta, and these amounts cannot be appreciably increased through loading body iron stores by oral ingestion,’ by parenteral iron administration2 or by multiple blood transfusions.3 These observations imply that iron is rigidly conserved by the body and that no attention need be directed tow...

Intravenous Iron Therapy with Saccharated Iron Oxide