Pressure sores and blood and serum dysmetabolism in spinal cord injury patients

Spinal Cord

Volumn 42, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 473-476

  Scivoletto, G ^a   Fuoco, U ^a   Morganti, B ^a   Cosentino, E ^a   Molinari, M ^a,b  

^a IRCCS FONDAZIONE SANTA LUCIA   (Italy)

^b CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

Author keywords

Anaemia; Chronic inflammatory state; Decubitus ulcer; Serum protein alteration; Spinal cord injury

Indexed keywords

ALPHA1 GLYCOPROTEIN; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; FERRITIN; HEMOGLOBIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; PROTEIN; TRANSFERRIN;

ADULT; ANEMIA; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DECUBITUS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; HEMATOCRIT; HUMAN; HYPOALBUMINEMIA; HYPOPROTEINEMIA; MALE; METABOLIC DISORDER; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; SPINAL CORD INJURY; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; ULCER HEALING;

ADULT; ANEMIA; C-REACTIVE PROTEIN; FEMALE; FERRITINS; GAMMA-GLOBULINS; GLOBINS; HEMATOCRIT; HEMOGLOBINS; HUMANS; HYPOPROTEINEMIA; IRON; IRON METABOLISM DISORDERS; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PRESSURE ULCER; SERUM ALBUMIN; SPINAL CORD INJURIES; TRANSFERRIN;

EID: 4243129213     PISSN: 13624393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.sc.3101622     Document Type: Article

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