Exciting Results with Injection Darbepoietin Alfa and Pegfilgrastim in Patients with Decompensated Liver Cirrhosis
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چکیده
Dysregulated erythropoietin (EPO) plasma levels may play a role in the patho physiology of chronic liver disease (CLD) [1] because chronic anaemia is frequently observed in patients with liver cirrhosis. Some reports have used regular short acting Erythropoietin as well as low dose long acting Erythropoietin and regular short acting Granulocyte colony stimulating factor (Filgrastim) in liver cirrhosis patients with significant benefits to patients [2,3]. There is no report of use of high dose long acting erythropoietin (Darbepoetin Alpha) and pegylated granulocyte colony stimulating factor (Pegfilgrastim) in patients with decompensated Liver cirrhosis. Patients and Methods
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