Hitting the Target But Missing the Goal? Hemoglobin Targets Versus Oxygen Delivery

American Journal of Kidney Diseases

Volumn 50, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 344-

  Diskin, Charles J ^a  

^a AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ERYTHROPOIETIN RECEPTOR; HEMOGLOBIN; OXYGEN; PARATHYROID HORMONE; RECOMBINANT ERYTHROPOIETIN;

ACIDOSIS; BOHR EFFECT; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); DOWN REGULATION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE HYPERTROPHY; HEMODIALYSIS PATIENT; HEMOGLOBIN BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; HYPERPHOSPHATEMIA; HYPOXIA; LETTER; MORTALITY; OXYGEN DISSOCIATION CURVE;

GOALS; HEMOGLOBINS; HUMANS; HYPERTROPHY, LEFT VENTRICULAR; OXYGEN;

EID: 34447621766     PISSN: 02726386     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/j.ajkd.2007.04.028     Document Type: Letter

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