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Perioperative Iron With Erythropoietin in Bilateral Total Knee Replacement Arthroplasty (TKRA)

NCT01012063

RandomizedParallel-groupOpen-labelPrevention

Summary

The object of this study is to evaluate whether low dose intravenous iron and erythropoietin (Epo) can decrease transfusion requirement after the bilateral TKRA.

Timeline

Start
2008-08
Primary completion
2009-10
Completion
2009-10

Drugs

EvaluationDrugModalityDoseRoute
Subject Iron sucrose Unknown 200 mg Intravenous
Subject erythropoietin-β Unknown 3000 iu Subcutaneous

Indications