Name: Anemia and Secondary Hyperparathyroidism
Creator: Robert C. Kane
Keywords: 2. Zero hunger, 03 medical and health sciences, 0302 clinical medicine, Humans, Anemia, Hyperparathyroidism, Secondary, Erythrocyte Volume, 3. Good health

descriptionPublicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article 01 Jan 1980 English Publisher:American Medical Association (AMA)Journal:Archives of Internal Medicine, volume 140, page 139 (issn: 0003-9926,

Authors: Robert C. Kane;

doi: 10.1001/archinte.1980.00330130141048

pmid: 7352797

Anemia and Secondary Hyperparathyroidism

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To the Editor. —The article entitled "Anemia and Secondary Hyperparathyroidism" in the NovemberArchives(138:1650-1652, 1978) reports that subtotal parathyroidectomy resulted in a substantial increase of mean hematocrit value and hemoglobin level, but the precise mechanism was unknown. The reason the mechanism was unknown is because the authors did not do the proper studies. Anemia is, by definition, a reduction in the RBC mass. It is most likely that the changes the authors observed were changes of hemodilution. The article should not have been published without showing a change in RBC mass.

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Humans, Anemia, Hyperparathyroidism, Secondary, Erythrocyte Volume

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