Treatment of anaemia after joint replacement
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Treatment of anaemia after joint replacement. A double-blind, randomised, controlled trial of ferrous sulphate versus placebo.
After total hip and knee replacement arthroplasty, patients may become anaemic and may be prescribed oral iron. There is, however, no published evidence that this is of benefit when used postoperatively. We treated 72 patients who were anaemic after primary total hip and knee arthroplasty by randomly allocating them to receive six weeks of either oral ferrous sulphate (35 patients) or a placebo...
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عنوان ژورنال: The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery. British volume
سال: 2005
ISSN: 0301-620X,2044-5377
DOI: 10.1302/0301-620x.87b3.16168