Erythrocyte creatine as a marker of excessive erythrocyte destruction due to hypersplenism in patients with liver cirrhosis

Clinical Biochemistry

Volumn 34, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 395-398

  Jiao, Yu Fei ^a   Okumiya, Toshika ^a   Saibara, Toshiji ^a   Kudo, Yoshihiro ^a   Sugiura, Tetsuro ^a  

^a KOCHI MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Erythrocyte age; Erythropoiesis; Splenomegaly

Indexed keywords

HEMOGLOBIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD CELL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DESTRUCTION; ECHOGRAPHY; ENZYME CHEMISTRY; ERYTHROCYTE; ERYTHROCYTE LEVEL; FEMALE; HEMOLYSIS; HUMAN; HYPERSPLENISM; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETICULOCYTE; SPLEEN FUNCTION; SPLEEN SIZE; SPLENOMEGALY;

AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CREATINE; ERYTHROCYTE AGING; ERYTHROCYTES; FEMALE; HEMOGLOBINS; HUMANS; HYPERSPLENISM; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RETICULOCYTE COUNT; SPLEEN; STATISTICS;

EID: 0034894028     PISSN: 00099120     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0009-9120(01)00242-9     Document Type: Article

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