Is analysis of the reticulocyte haemoglobin equivalent a useful test for the diagnosis of iron deficiency anaemia in geriatric patients?

European Journal of Internal Medicine

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 63-66

  Joosten, Etienne ^a   Lioen, Pieter ^a   Brusselmans, Caroline ^a   Indevuyst, Christophe ^a   Boeckx, Nancy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Anaemia of chronic disease; Diagnosis; Geriatric patients; Iron deficiency anaemia; Reticulocyte haemoglobin equivalent

Indexed keywords

ACUTE BACTERIAL PAROTITIS; AGED; ANEMIA; ANEMIA OF CHRONIC DISEASE; AORTIC ANEURYSM INFECTION; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL ARTHRITIS; BENIGN GASTROINTESTINAL LESION; BENIGN TUMOR; BLADDER CANCER; BLOOD ANALYSIS; BLOOD CELL COUNT; BLOOD SAMPLING; BREAST CANCER; CELLULITIS; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; COLORECTAL CANCER; COLORECTAL POLYP; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECUBITUS; DEMENTIA; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; EMPYEMA; ERYSIPELAS; ERYTHROCYTE PARAMETERS; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL INFECTION; GERIATRIC PATIENT; GIANT CELL ARTERITIS; GOUT; HEART FAILURE; HUMAN; IDIOPATHIC DISEASE; INFECTION; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK DEGENERATION; IRON DEFICIENCY ANEMIA; LABORATORY TEST; LUNG CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEAN CORPUSCULAR HEMOGLOBIN; MEAN CORPUSCULAR HEMOGLOBIN CONCENTRATION; MEAN CORPUSCULAR VOLUME; OSTEOMYELITIS; OVARY CANCER; PARAMETERS; PAROTITIS; PROSTATE CANCER; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; RETICULOCYTE HAEMOGLOBIN EQUIVALENT; RHEUMATIC POLYMYALGIA; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SEPSIS; URINARY TRACT INFECTION;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANEMIA, IRON-DEFICIENCY; FEMALE; HEMOGLOBINS; HUMANS; MALE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RETICULOCYTES;

EID: 84871415963     PISSN: 09536205     EISSN: 18790828     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejim.2012.09.001     Document Type: Article

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