Single value of serum transferrin receptor is not diagnostic for the absence of iron stores in anaemic patients with rheumatoid arthritis

Clinical and Laboratory Haematology

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 155-160

  Siebert, Stefan ^a   Williams, B D ^a   Henley, R ^a   Ellis, R ^a   Cavill, I ^a   Worwood, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF WALES   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Anaemia; Iron deficiency; Rheumatoid arthritis; Serum transferrin receptor

Indexed keywords

FERRITIN; IRON; TRANSFERRIN RECEPTOR;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FEMALE; FERRITIN BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; IRON DEFICIENCY ANEMIA; IRON STORAGE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEAN CORPUSCULAR HEMOGLOBIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETICULOCYTE COUNT; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SERUM; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANEMIA; ANEMIA, HYPOCHROMIC; ANEMIA, IRON-DEFICIENCY; ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; ERYTHROPOIESIS; FEMALE; FERRITINS; HUMANS; IRON; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RECEPTORS, TRANSFERRIN;

EID: 0038575743     PISSN: 01419854     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2257.2003.00509.x     Document Type: Article

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