[Clinical use of parenteral preparations of iron]

The article contains an analytical review of medical literature concerning the use of parenteral preparations of iron in clinical practice. In recent years new effective and safe intravenous preparations of iron have come to be used in medical practice, with formulae developed to calculate a general bodily iron deficiency, ways for and doses of their administration. Indications for administration of intravenous preparations of iron have now been extended in a well-founded manner to include a wider variety of cases. In the present review, modern status of use of intravenous preparations of iron are discussed together with prospects of their employment in future.