Reticulocyte haemoglobin content as a marker of iron deficiency

Archives of Disease in Childhood: Fetal and Neonatal Edition

Volumn 100, Issue 3, 2015, Pages F198-F202

  Lorenz, Laila ^a   Arand, Jörg ^a   Büchner, Katja ^a   Wacker Gussmann, Annette ^a   Peter, Andreas ^b   Poets, Christian F ^a   Franz, Axel R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FERRITIN; HEMOGLOBIN; TRANSFERRIN; BIOLOGICAL MARKER;

ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; ERYTHROCYTE COUNT; FEMALE; FERRITIN BLOOD LEVEL; FOLLOW UP; GESTATIONAL AGE; HEMATOCRIT; HEMOGLOBIN BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; INFANT; IRON DEFICIENCY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEAN CORPUSCULAR HEMOGLOBIN; MEAN CORPUSCULAR VOLUME; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PREMATURITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETICULOCYTE COUNT; RETICULOCYTE HEMOGLOBIN CONTENT; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TRANSFERRIN BLOOD LEVEL; VERY LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; ANEMIA, IRON-DEFICIENCY; BLOOD; CHEMISTRY; INFANT, PREMATURE, DISEASES; NEWBORN; RETICULOCYTE; WEIGHT GAIN;

ANEMIA, IRON-DEFICIENCY; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; ERYTHROCYTE INDICES; FEMALE; FERRITINS; GESTATIONAL AGE; HEMOGLOBINS; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, PREMATURE; INFANT, PREMATURE, DISEASES; INFANT, VERY LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; MALE; RETICULOCYTES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TRANSFERRIN; WEIGHT GAIN;

EID: 84927667464     PISSN: 13592998     EISSN: 14682052     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/archdischild-2014-306076     Document Type: Article

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