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Erythropoietin response to critical illness

Brian Krafte‐Jacobs, Marcia Levetown, Gordon L. Bray, Urs E. Ruttimann, Murray M. Pollack

Critical Care Medicine · 1994 · 127 citations · 0 references

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Abstract

The erythropoietin response to known physiologic stimuli is blunted in critically ill children. This blunted erythropoietin response may result in increased transfusion requirements.