Red cell distribution width should be assessed together with other inflammatory markers in daily clinical practice

Cardiology (Switzerland)

Volumn 124, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 60-

  Cakar, Mustafa ^a   Balta, Sevket ^a   Demirkol, Sait ^a   Kurt, Omer ^a   Unlu, Murat ^a   Akhan, Muharrem ^a  

^a GULHANE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEMOGLOBIN A1C; STEROID;

ANEMIA; ARTERIAL WALL THICKNESS; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BLOOD CELL COUNT; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; ERYTHROCYTE; HUMAN; HYPERGLYCEMIA; LETTER; NON ST SEGMENT ELEVATION MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ACUTE CORONARY SYNDROME; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE MARKER; EMERGENCY WARD; ENDOTHELIAL DYSFUNCTION; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HEMOGLOBIN BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN CELL; INFLAMMATION; IRON DEFICIENCY ANEMIA; LYMPHOCYTE; MORTALITY; NEUTROPHIL COUNT; PROGNOSIS; THALASSEMIA; VIRUS INFECTION;

ANGINA, UNSTABLE; ERYTHROCYTE INDICES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION;

EID: 84872266129     PISSN: 00086312     EISSN: 14219751     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000345927     Document Type: Letter

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