Can Renal Failure Lead to Anemia

With the progress of renal failure, the patients will get some symptoms and complications including anemia. The common anemia is caused by malnutrition, which seems to be completely miss, or at least grossly underemphasized, but the anemia due to renal failure should not be ignored lightly.


The anemia due to renal failure is difficult to be cured, which is resulted from the reduce of red blood cell synthesis quantity caused by erythropoietin can't secrete in a normal way for a long time. If the anemia have not been corrected effectively, the condition will not get better by itself. Most of the renal failure with anemia will experience internal haemorrhage, the condition can aggravate anemia and lead to the increase of creatinine level and other metabolite. Because of the reduce of glomerular filtration rate, the waste can not be excreted adequately, which is equivalent to mix up the toxins with the blood, this situation will accelerate the death and restrain the regeneration of red blood cells. So anemia due to renal failure is a severe complication that requires attention.

The patients with renal failure are vulnerable to several symptoms, patients and their family numbers should pay more attention to these conditions.
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