Response to red blood cell distribution width is a predictor of readmission in cardiac patients

Clinical Cardiology

Volumn 36, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 364-365

  Balta, Sevket ^a   Demirkol, Sait ^a   Kurt, Omer ^a   Sarlak, Hakan ^a   Celik, Turgay ^a   Mikhailidis, Dimitri P ^b  

^a GULHANE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Turkey)

^b ROYAL FREE AND UNIVERSITY COLLEGE MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CYANOCOBALAMIN; FOLIC ACID; IRON; NEUROHORMONE; URIC ACID;

ACUTE CORONARY SYNDROME; BONE MARROW DEPRESSION; CARDIAC PATIENT; CARDIOVASCULAR MORTALITY; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CHRONIC INFLAMMATION; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS SURGERY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; EMERGENCY; ERYTHROCYTE; ERYTHROCYTE PARAMETERS; ETHNICITY; HEALTH CARE COST; HEART FAILURE; HOSPITAL READMISSION; HUMAN; INFLAMMATORY DISEASE; KIDNEY INJURY; LETTER; LIVER DYSFUNCTION; LYMPHOCYTE; NEUTROPHIL; NON ST SEGMENT ELEVATION MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; NUTRITIONAL DEFICIENCY; PERIPHERAL OCCLUSIVE ARTERY DISEASE; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PROGNOSIS; RED BLOOD CELL DISTRIBUTION WIDTH; SENESCENCE; STABLE ANGINA PECTORIS; THROMBOCYTE VOLUME; THYROID DISEASE; UNSTABLE ANGINA PECTORIS;

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

EID: 84879098939     PISSN: 01609289     EISSN: 19328737     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/clc.22139     Document Type: Letter

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