[Pathophysiology and therapy of anemia in chronic renal insufficiency]

During a chronic renal insufficiency obligatorily an anaemia develops, which shows a statistically highly significant non-linear correlation to the degree of the impairment of the renal function. The pathogenetic points of view are very diverse and include disturbances of the formation of erythrocytes and a shortened life span of the erythrocytes. The necessary treatment of anaemia, above all in patients on the chronic dialysis programmes must consider these pathomechanisms and will be in most cases identical with a polypragmasy.