Peripheral Blood and Bone Marrow Changes in Chronic Renal Failure (Investigation of 50 Cases)

Abstract

Anemia and morphological features of the hemopoietic system in 50 Iranian patients suffering from chronic uremia was investigated. The results were compared with the results observed by others; our findings in most instances are nearly in accordance but with the following differences: Whenblood urea was above 401 mg 'X, (BUN 187) there was a slight fall in hemoglobin concentration; anemia was normocytic, rarely macrocytic, or microcytic, and hypochromic in 72 (~l~~; of our patients, 28 ~l,':l of them had concomitant iron deficiency anemia demonstrable by absence or reduction of stainable iron in their marrow.