Anemia in the elderly

Disease-a-Month

Volumn 56, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 456-467

  Kheir, Fayez ^a   Haddad, Rami ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYANOCOBALAMIN; ERYTHROPOIETIN; FERRITIN; HAPTOGLOBIN; HEMOGLOBIN; HEPCIDIN; HOMOCYSTEINE; LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE; METHYLMALONIC ACID; TESTOSTERONE;

AGED; AGING; ANEMIA; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; BLOOD CELL COUNT; BONE MARROW BIOPSY; CHRONIC KIDNEY DISEASE; COOMBS TEST; CREATININE CLEARANCE; CYANOCOBALAMIN DEFICIENCY; CYTOGENETICS; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; ERYTHROPOIESIS; FATIGUE; FOLIC ACID DEFICIENCY; GERIATRIC PATIENT; GROUPS BY AGE; HEMATOCRIT; HEMOGLOBIN BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; HYPOTHYROIDISM; IRON BINDING CAPACITY; IRON DEFICIENCY; IRON DEFICIENCY ANEMIA; IRON STORAGE; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MACROCYTIC ANEMIA; MEAN CORPUSCULAR VOLUME; MEGALOCYTOSIS; MICROCYTIC ANEMIA; MYELODYSPLASTIC SYNDROME; NEUTROPENIA; NORMOCHROMIC NORMOCYTIC ANEMIA; PERNICIOUS ANEMIA; PROTEIN ELECTROPHORESIS; RETICULOCYTE COUNT; TESTOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; VITAMIN BLOOD LEVEL; AGE; ANEMIA, IRON-DEFICIENCY; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; ANEMIA; ANEMIA, IRON-DEFICIENCY; CLINICAL LABORATORY TECHNIQUES; HUMANS;

EID: 77956014328     PISSN: 00115029     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.disamonth.2010.03.006     Document Type: Article

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