Daily Subcutaneous Erythropoietin by Jet Injection in Pediatric Dialysis Patients

Assessment of pain after subcutaneous injection of erythropoietin in patients receiving haemodialysis.

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Subcutaneous defibrillator implantation in pediatric patients

OBJECTIVE Although sudden cardiac death is rare in children, an intracardiac defibrillator system is indicated in children with various types of cardiomyopathy, primary electrical diseases, and after surgical repair of congenital heart defects. The use of transvenous defibrillator lead systems is limited in pediatric patients because of a small body size and/or limited vascular access. Subcutan...

Subcutaneous versus intravenous recombinant human erythropoietin administration in hemodialysis patients.

Weekly subcutaneous erythropoietin maintains hematocrit in chronic hemodialysis patients.

R ecombinant human enythropoietin (r-HuEPO) is widely used to treat the anemia of chronic renal failure. Standard therapy is to administer r-HuEPO at doses of 50 to 1 50 U/kg iv three times a week after hemodiabysis treatment (1-3). This route of administration and dosing schedule are based on pharmacokmnetic studies that demonstrate that the half-life for an iv dose is approximately 6 to 9 h (...

Subcutaneous Erythropoietin Reverses Optic Neuropathy Induced by Methanol Poisoning: Three case reports

Background: Methanol is a highly toxic alcohol and causes such severe side effects as CNS depression, blindness, acute renal failure and even death. Methods: Patients were three male referrals (aged 29-56 years) to the poisoning center at Taleghani Hospital, Urmia, Iran, in 2020. They had unknowingly ingested methanol. Their chief problems were bilateral blindness and metabolic acidosis. Upon ...