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- Title
P050 - EVALUATION OF RED BLOOD CELL DISTRIBUTION WIDTH (RDW) LEVELS IN PATIENTS WITH LONG HOSPITALISATION AND EXITUS.
- Authors
ARZUHAL, Abdullah Ercan; DÜLGEROĞLU, Yakup; GÜNEYK, Ahmet; ÖZTÜRK, Gülfer; HANCI, Tuba; KIRTIL, Gül; BULUT, Erdem; ERDEN, Gönül
- Abstract
AIM: Red Blood Cell distribution width (RDW) is widely available with no additional cost to the routinely performed complete blood cell count (CBC). RDW has been known to be a predictor of mortality in some diseases such as clinically significant cardiovascular disease. Variation in RDW levels of patients in different inpatient clinics with exitus whose hospitalisation time lasted more than 30 days were analyzed in this study. MATERIAL AND METHODS: Laboratory results of 538 patients with exitus whose hospitalisation time lasted more than 30 days were retrospectively analyzed. Patients were classified into 8 groups, intensive care unit (ICU) (n=103), CVS-coronary ICU (n= 47), neurosurgery ICU (n=27), general surgery ICU (n=44), anesthesia and reanimation unit (n=107), internal medicine ICU ( n= 155), oncology (n=28), others (n= 27). All of the CBC measurements of a patient were grouped into three time periods. Means of RDW levels for each patient for each period were calculated. Variation in RDW levels among three periods (1st period-2st period / 1st period-3st period / 2st period-3st period) were evaluated by using Student-t test. RESULTS: Neurology ICU, KDC-coronary ICU, internal medicine ICU, neurosurgery ICU and oncology service groups had significant increase in levels of RDW (p < 0.05). There were significant increases between 1st - 2nd periods in surgical ICU group, between 1st - 3rd periods in anesthesia ICU group, between 1st - 2nd and 1st - 3rd periods in the other services group (p < 0.05). CONCLUSION: Increased RDW values of patients whose were hospitalized more than 30 days in Neurology ICU, KVC-coronary ICU, internal medicine ICU, neurosurgery ICU and oncology services can be considered for RDW mortality association.
- Subjects
ERYTHROCYTES; CARDIOVASCULAR diseases risk factors; BLOOD cell count
- Publication
Turkish Journal of Biochemistry / Turk Biyokimya Dergisi, 2012, Vol 37, Issue S1, p191
- ISSN
0250-4685
- Publication type
Abstract