Red blood cell distribution width: A simple parameter with multiple clinical applications

Critical Reviews in Clinical Laboratory Sciences

Volumn 52, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 86-105

  Salvagno, Gian Luca ^a   Sanchis Gomar, Fabian ^b   Picanza, Alessandra ^c   Lippi, Giuseppe ^c  

^a General Direction   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

^c ACADEMIC HOSPITAL OF PARMA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Hematology; Mortality; RDW; Red blood cell distribution width; Risk factor

Indexed keywords

TOBACCO SMOKE;

ACUTE HEPATITIS B; ACUTE KIDNEY FAILURE; AIR POLLUTION; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ANEMIA; ANISOCYTOSIS; ANTIVIRAL THERAPY; APLASTIC ANEMIA; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; AUTOIMMUNE HEMOLYTIC ANEMIA; BETA THALASSEMIA; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CHEMOTHERAPY; CHRONIC HEPATITIS B; CHRONIC KIDNEY DISEASE; CHRONIC LIVER DISEASE; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; COMMUNITY ACQUIRED PNEUMONIA; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY ARTERY ECTASIA; CRITICALLY ILL PATIENT; CYANOCOBALAMIN DEFICIENCY; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIABETIC KETOACIDOSIS; DIABETIC NEPHROPATHY; DIABETIC NEUROPATHY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DUST EXPOSURE; DYSLIPIDEMIA; ERYTHROCYTE; ERYTHROCYTE DISORDER; ERYTHROCYTE DISTRIBUTION WIDTH; ERYTHROCYTE FUNCTION AND CHARACTERISTICS; ERYTHROCYTE LIFESPAN; ERYTHROCYTE VOLUME; ERYTHROPOIESIS; FOLIC ACID DEFICIENCY; HEART FAILURE; HEART INFARCTION; HEART VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEMATOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; HEMATOLOGY ANALYZER; HEMOLYTIC ANEMIA; HEPATOBILIARY DISEASE; HEREDITARY SPHEROCYTOSIS; HOMEOSTASIS; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INFLAMMATION; IRON DEFICIENCY; KIDNEY DISEASE; KIDNEY FAILURE; LABORATORY TEST; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER DISEASE; LIVER FAILURE; MEAN CORPUSCULAR VOLUME; METABOLIC SYNDROME X; MORTALITY; NEOPLASM; NON ST SEGMENT ELEVATION MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; NONALCOHOLIC FATTY LIVER; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OUT OF HOSPITAL CARDIAC ARREST; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PATHOGENESIS; PERIPHERAL OCCLUSIVE ARTERY DISEASE; POPULATION; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIMARY BILIARY CIRRHOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY HYPERTENSION; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SICKLE CELL ANEMIA; ST SEGMENT ELEVATION MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; TELOMERE; THALASSEMIA; THROMBOTIC THROMBOCYTOPENIC PURPURA; VENOUS THROMBOEMBOLISM; HEMATOLOGY; PROGNOSIS;

ERYTHROCYTE INDICES; ERYTHROCYTE VOLUME; HEMATOLOGY; HUMANS; PROGNOSIS; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 84929347754     PISSN: 10408363     EISSN: 1549781X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/10408363.2014.992064     Document Type: Review

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