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prevalence iron deficiency anemia setting modernday maintenance immunosuppression pediatric heart transplant htx recipients unclear primary aim determine prevalence iron deficiency serum ferritin 30 ngml transferrin saturation 20 anemia per world health organization diagnostic criteria associated risk factors singlecenter crosssectional analysis 200 consecutive pediatric htx recipients 21 years old 2005 2021 data collected 1year posthtx time annual protocol biopsy median age transplant 3 years iqr 5122 median ferritin level 32 ngml 46 ferritin 30 ngml median transferrin saturation tsat 22 47 tsat 20 median hemoglobin 11 gdl 54 anemia multivariable analysis revealed lower absolute lymphocyte count tsat 20 estimated glomerular filtration rate 75 mlmin173 m2 independently associated anemia ferritin 30 ngml isolation associated anemia ferritin 30 ngml may aid detecting absolute iron deficiency tsat 20 may useful identifying patients functional iron deficiency anemia pediatric htx recipients iron deficiency anemia highly prevalent pediatric htx recipients future studies needed assess impact iron deficiency whether without anemia clinical outcomes pediatric htx recipients