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Angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibition and anaemia in renal patients
A Korzets1, D Zevin, A Chagnac
1Department of Nephrology, Golda Medical Center, Petach-Tikva, Israel.
Acta Haematologica
|January 1, 1993
Abstract:
A 35-year-old renal transplant patient with stable renal function developed an unexplained anaemia. Appropriate investigations proved non-diagnostic. Only when enalapril therapy was stopped did the anaemia reverse and haemoglobin levels returned to pre-treatment levels. An association between angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors and anaemia in patients with renal failure is becoming more evident. A literature review of this problem and its possible pathogenesis in patients with renal failure is given.