Hookah (narghile) smoking: A new emerging cause of secondary polycythemia

American Journal of Hematology

Volumn 86, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 719-720

  Tadmor, Tamar ^a   Mishchenko, Elena ^a   Polliack, Aaron ^b   Attias, Dina ^a  

^a BNAI ZION MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b HADASSAH HEBREW UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBOXYHEMOGLOBIN; ERYTHROPOIETIN; HEMOGLOBIN; JANUS KINASE 2;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; BLOOD CELL COUNT; BLOOD CHEMISTRY; CASE REPORT; CIGARETTE SMOKING; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ERYTHROCYTOSIS; HEMATOCRIT; HOOKAH SMOKING; HUMAN; LETTER; LUNG FUNCTION TEST; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMOKING HABIT;

ANOXIA; CARBOXYHEMOGLOBIN; HUMANS; MALE; POLYCYTHEMIA; SMOKING; SUBSTANCE-RELATED DISORDERS;

EID: 79960360771     PISSN: 03618609     EISSN: 10968652     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ajh.22064     Document Type: Letter

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