Vitamin D supplementation and recombinant human erythropoietin utilization in vitamin D-deficient hemodialysis patients.
Conclusions: ERGO use in 25-D-deficient HD patients may lessen the need for EPO. We recommend more aggressive supplementation with ERGO in future studies to achieve levels >30 ng/mL.
PMID: 20563998 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher] (Source: Journal of Nephrology)