Internal medicine

Pathology

Pediatrics

Placebo

Iron deficiency

Gastroenterology

Odds ratio

Surgery

Alternative medicine

Anemia

Ferritin

Cardiac surgery

Erythropoietin

Blood transfusion

Perioperative

Medicine

The Lancet

An ultra-short-term combination treatment with intravenous iron, subcutaneous erythropoietin alpha, vitamin B12, and oral folic acid reduced RBC and total allogeneic blood product transfusions in patients with preoperative anaemia or isolated iron deficiency undergoing elective cardiac surgery.

Effect of ultra-short-term treatment of patients with iron deficiency or anaemia undergoing cardiac surgery: a prospective randomised trial