Journal:
:medical journal of islamic republic of iran
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maliheh kadivar 1department of pediatrics, children s medical center; tehran university of medical sciences,tehran- iran.
hadi samaei department of pediatrics, alias ghar children s hospital, iran university of medical sciences, tehran.
habibeh mozaffari immunology, asthma and allergy research institute, children s medical center; tehran university of medical sciences, tehran.
keramat nouri department of statistics, faculty of health & biostatistics, tehran university of medical sciences.
modjtaba modjtahedzadeh department of clinical pharmacology, faculty of pharmacology, tehran university ofmedical sciences, tehran, iran.
abstract background: very low birth weight infants ( <1500 g) frequently require blood transfusions because of repeated blood sampling accompanied by anemia of prematurity. methods: in an attempt to identify the effect of human recombinant erythropoietin to decrease the requirement for blood transfusions, erythropoietin was administered to 24 pre term infants less than 1500 g prospectively from...