Anaemia is a predictor of early death or cardiac transplantation in children with idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy

Cardiology in the Young

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 293-300

  Kammache, Issam ^a   Parrinello, Giovanni ^b   Marini, Davide ^c   Bonnet, Damien ^a   Agnoletti, Gabriella ^c  

^a Centre de Référence des Malformations Cardiaques Congénitales Complexes M3C   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRESCIA   (Italy)

^c Hospital Regina Margherita   (Italy)

Author keywords

cardiac failure; Haemoglobin; myocardiopathy

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN; HEMOGLOBIN; UREA;

ADOLESCENT; ANEMIA; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILD DEATH; CONGESTIVE CARDIOMYOPATHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVENT FREE SURVIVAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART FAILURE; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HEMOGLOBIN BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEWBORN; PREDICTION; PREVALENCE; PROGNOSIS; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; UREA BLOOD LEVEL; BLOOD; DISEASE FREE SURVIVAL; FRANCE; MORTALITY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; STATISTICS;

ADOLESCENT; ANEMIA; C-REACTIVE PROTEIN; CARDIOMYOPATHY, DILATED; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; FRANCE; HEART FAILURE; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HEMOGLOBINS; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; PREVALENCE; PROGNOSIS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; UREA;

EID: 84867073074     PISSN: 10479511     EISSN: 14671107     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1047951111001442     Document Type: Article

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