Soluble transferrin receptor and transferrin receptor-ferritin index in iron deficiency anemia and anemia in rheumatoid arthritis

Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine

Volumn 43, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 326-331

  Margetic, Sandra ^a   Topic, Elizabeta ^a   Ruzic, Dragica Ferenec ^a   Kvaternik, Marina ^a  

^a SESTRE MILOSRDNICE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Croatia)

Author keywords

Anemia in rheumatoid arthritis; Iron deficiency anemia; Soluble transferrin receptor; Transferrin receptor ferritin index

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN; FERRITIN; HEMOGLOBIN; TRANSFERRIN; TRANSFERRIN RECEPTOR;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD CELL COUNT; BLOOD SAMPLING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; HEMOGLOBIN DETERMINATION; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; IRON DEFICIENCY ANEMIA; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; RELIABILITY; RETICULOCYTE COUNT; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TRANSFERRIN BLOOD LEVEL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANEMIA; ANEMIA, IRON-DEFICIENCY; ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; BODY MASS INDEX; C-REACTIVE PROTEIN; FEMALE; FERRITINS; HUMANS; IRON; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RECEPTORS, TRANSFERRIN; ROC CURVE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SOLUBILITY;

EID: 17044404693     PISSN: 14346621     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/CCLM.2005.056     Document Type: Article

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