Shortened red blood cell age in patients with end-stage renal disease who were receiving haemodialysis: a cross-sectiona
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RESEARCH ARTICLE
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Shortened red blood cell age in patients with end-stage renal disease who were receiving haemodialysis: a cross-sectional study Koichiro Matsumura1* , Toshika Okumiya2, Tetsuro Sugiura1, Nobuyuki Takahashi1, Yoshihiro Yamamoto1, Sanae Kikuchi1, Kenichi Fujii1, Munemitsu Otagaki1 and Ichiro Shiojima1
Abstract Background: The causes of anaemia in patients with end-stage renal disease include a relative deficiency in erythropoietin production and complex clinical conditions. We aimed to investigate the underlying mechanisms of anaemia in patients with end-stage renal disease who were undergoing maintenance dialysis by measuring erythrocyte creatine levels. Methods: In a cross-sectional study, we evaluated 69 patients with end-stage renal disease who were receiving haemodialysis (n = 55) or peritoneal dialysis (n = 14). Erythrocyte creatine level, a quantitative marker of mean red blood cell (RBC) age, was measured. Results: The mean RBC age was significantly shorter in the haemodialysis group than in the peritoneal dialysis group (47.7 days vs. 59.8 days, p < 0.0001), although the haemoglobin levels were comparable between the groups. A Spearman correlation coefficient analysis revealed that shortened RBC age positively correlated with transferrin saturation (r = 0.54), ferritin level (r = 0.47), and haptoglobin level (r = 0.39) but inversely related with reticulocyte (r = − 0.36), weekly doses of erythropoiesis-stimulating agents (ESAs; r = − 0.62), erythropoietin resistance index (r = − 0.64), and intradialytic ultrafiltration rate (r = − 0.32). Conclusions: Shortened RBC age was observed in patients who were receiving maintenance haemodialysis and was associated with iron deficiency, greater haptoglobin consumption, higher ESA requirements, and poor erythropoietin responsiveness, as well as with greater intradialytic fluid extraction. Keywords: Anaemia, Haemodialysis, Peritoneal dialysis, Red blood cell age
* Correspondence: [email protected] 1 Department of Medicine II, Kansai Medical University, 10-15 Fumizono-cho, Moriguchi 5708507, Japan Full list of author information is available at the end of the article © The Author(s). 2020 Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. The Cr
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