Intravenous Iron Administration to Very‐Low‐Birth‐Weight Newborns Receiving Total and Partial Parenteral Nutrition

Abstract

A total iron intake of 400 micrograms/kg/d, half of which was provided by IV iron, is not sufficient to maintain iron balance or to meet fetal accretion rates (1000 micrograms/kg/d) in very-low-birth-weight newborns receiving total parenteral nutrition. Furthermore, endogenous iron from blood transfusions does not provide an adequate supply of iron.