if a person has kidney disease, what type of anemia is he most likely to develop?
Posted by norton g
dear researchfreak, The answer is normocytic, normochromic anemia in which red blood cells (RBCs) are of normal shape, normal size, and normal color. The anemia is due to the body making too few RBCs. The normal kidney produces a substance called erythropoietin which stimulates the normal bone marrow ro make RBCs. A diseased kidney makes less erythropoietin and the result is less RBC being made with the resulting anemia.
Posted by cwhitneyRN
It's generally referred to as "anemia of chronic kidney disease" - a hematopoetic anemia related to declining glomerular filtration and reduced renal erythropoetin production. Quite common in chronic renal failure patients. And the treatment? You guessed it - subcutaneous erythropoetin replacement!
-Chad, RN
Posted by Shaun3001
I think its a normocytic anaemia, where the person is anaemic due to deficient red blood cell production. This occurs typically in chronic kidney disease as the kidneys produce the hormone erythropoetin which affects the rate of haematopoeisis (the production of red blood cells). Therefore if damaged kidneys dont produce enough hormone, then there will be less blood cells produced, however the blood cells produced will be normal.
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