Anemia in the eldery - A diagnostic and therapeutic challenge?;Anämie im alter - Eine diagnostische und therapeutische herausforderung

Therapeutische Umschau

Volumn 67, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 257-263

  Ebnöther, Monika ^a  

^a Burgerspital Solothurn   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYANOCOBALAMIN; FOLIC ACID; RECOMBINANT ERYTHROPOIETIN;

AGING; ANEMIA; BLEEDING; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CHRONIC KIDNEY FAILURE; CYANOCOBALAMIN DEFICIENCY; FOLIC ACID DEFICIENCY; HUMAN; IRON DEFICIENCY ANEMIA; MACROCYTIC ANEMIA; MEAN CORPUSCULAR VOLUME; MICROCYTIC ANEMIA; NORMOCHROMIC NORMOCYTIC ANEMIA; REVIEW;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANEMIA; ERYTHROPOIETIN; FEMALE; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HUMANS; IRON; MALE;

EID: 77953156094     PISSN: 00405930     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1024/0040-5930/a000046     Document Type: Review

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