Clinical significance of hypoalbuminemia in outcome of patients with scrub typhus

BMC Infectious Diseases

Volumn 10, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Lee, Chang Seop ^a   Min, In Suk ^a   Hwang, Jeong Hwan ^a   Kwon, Keun Sang ^a   Lee, Heung Bum ^a  

^a Chonbuk National University Medical School   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALBUMIN;

ACUTE KIDNEY FAILURE; ADULT; AGED; ALBUMIN BLOOD LEVEL; APACHE; ARTICLE; CONFUSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HOSPITAL COST; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; HYPOALBUMINEMIA; LUNG EDEMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PLEURA EFFUSION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCORING SYSTEM; SCRUB TYPHUS; LENGTH OF STAY; MIDDLE AGED; PROGNOSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; APACHE; ARRHYTHMIAS, CARDIAC; CONFUSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPOALBUMINEMIA; KIDNEY FAILURE, ACUTE; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PLEURAL EFFUSION; PROGNOSIS; PULMONARY EDEMA; SCRUB TYPHUS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 77954677167     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712334     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2334-10-216     Document Type: Article

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