Innovative parameters RET-Y, sTfR, and sTfR-F index in patients with microcytic, hypochromic anemia - Their special value for hemoglobinopathies

Laboratory Hematology

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 63-68

  Agorasti, Athanasia ^a,c   Trivellas, Theodore ^b   Papadopoulos, Vassilios ^a   Konstantinidou, Despina ^a  

^a General Hospital of Xanthi   (Greece)

^b TECHNOLOGICAL EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTE OF KAVALA   (Greece)

^c NONE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Hemoglobinopathics; Iron deficiency anemia; Receiver operating characteristics curve analysis; RET Y; Soluble transferrin receptor

Indexed keywords

FERRITIN; TRANSFERRIN RECEPTOR;

ADULT; ALPHA THALASSEMIA; AREA UNDER THE CURVE; ARTICLE; BETA THALASSEMIA; BLOOD CELL COUNT; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ERYTHROCYTE PARAMETERS; FEMALE; GENETIC COUNSELING; HEMOGLOBINOPATHY; HISTOGRAM; HUMAN; IRON DEFICIENCY ANEMIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POPULATION RESEARCH; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; REFERENCE VALUE; RETICULOCYTE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; YOUDEN INDEX;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANEMIA, HYPOCHROMIC; ANEMIA, IRON-DEFICIENCY; COHORT STUDIES; ERYTHROCYTE INDICES; FEMALE; FERRITINS; HEMOGLOBINOPATHIES; HEMOGLOBINS; HEMOGLOBINS, ABNORMAL; HUMANS; LIGHT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEPHELOMETRY AND TURBIDIMETRY; RECEPTORS, TRANSFERRIN; RETICULOCYTE COUNT; ROC CURVE; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THALASSEMIA;

EID: 34447505926     PISSN: 10802924     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1532/LH96.06044     Document Type: Article

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