Serum hepcidin-25 and response to intravenous iron in patients with non-dialysis chronic kidney disease.
CONCLUSIONS: Hepcidin is an iron sensor marker which predicts the magnitude of haemoglobin increment following protocolised intravenous iron infusion. Although displaying similar predictive performance to ferritin and transferrin saturation, hepcidin may also play a mechanistic role.
PMID: 24687402 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher] (Source: Journal of Nephrology)