In patients with renal insufficiency associated with increased hemoglobin levels and polycythemia, the possibilities of recombinant erythropoietin overdosing and disorders such as neoplasms and ...

The treatment of cancer-induced anemia with erythropoietin-stimulating agents ... and hemoglobin levels in 354 patients with breast cancer who had a baseline hemoglobin concentration of <15 ...

Originally blood tests were introduced for medical reasons and for limiting misuse of recombinant human erythropoietin (rHuEPO). In this way it became possible to prevent athletes with haematocrit ...

Methods: Erythropoietin levels were measured in 16 elite junior swimmers before and after 4 h exposure to normobaric hypoxia (Fio 2 0.15, ∼2500 m) as well as repeatedly during 3 week altitude training ...

In this video, Jay B. Wish, MD, professor of clinical medicine at Indiana University School of Medicine and chief medical ...

Routine administration of recombinant erythropoietin to patients on hemodialysis has greatly facilitated the management of chronic-kidney-disease-induced anemia. However, this glycoprotein hormone ...

Indeed, several of Amgen's claims contain language that the EPO product can not be “isolated from human urine” or that the vertebrate cells produce ”in excess of 100 U of erythropoietin per ...