Pre-operative haemoglobin levels and iron status in a large multicentre cohort of patients undergoing major elective surgery

Anaesthesia

Volumn 72, Issue 7, 2017, Pages 826-834

  Munoz M ^a   Laso Morales, M J ^b   Gomez Ramirez S ^c   Cadellas, M ^d   Nunez Matas M J ^e   Garcia Erce J A ^f  

^a Transfusion Medicine   (Spain)

^b Servicio de Oncología Médica   (Spain)

^c HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO VIRGEN DE LA VICTORIA   (Spain)

^d HOSPITAL DE L ESPERANÇA   (Spain)

^e HOSPITAL REGIONAL UNIVERSITARIO DE MÁLAGA   (Spain)

^f Blood and Tissues Bank of Navarra   (Spain)

Author keywords

anaemia; iron deficiency; iron sequestration; iron stores; major surgery

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN; FERRITIN; HEMOGLOBIN; IRON; TRANSFERRIN;

ADULT; AGED; ANEMIA; ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; COLORECTAL CANCER; ELECTIVE SURGERY; FEMALE; GYNECOLOGIC SURGERY; HEART SURGERY; HEMOGLOBIN BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; IRON DEFICIENCY; IRON STORAGE; LIVER METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MAJOR SURGERY; MALE; MULTICENTER STUDY (TOPIC); ORTHOPEDIC SURGERY; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PREVALENCE; PROSTATECTOMY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; CLINICAL TRIAL; DEFICIENCY; METABOLISM; MIDDLE AGED; MULTICENTER STUDY; PREOPERATIVE CARE; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANEMIA; COHORT STUDIES; ELECTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; FEMALE; HEMOGLOBINS; HUMANS; IRON; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREOPERATIVE CARE;

EID: 85017469485     PISSN: 00032409     EISSN: 13652044     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/anae.13840     Document Type: Article

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