Case 6/2014 – A Case of a 61-Year-old Woman with Diastolic Heart Failure
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Laboratory tests from when the patient was first seen at the InCor emergency unit (in March 2013) revealed: 3.3 million red blood cells/mm3; hemoglobin 10.9 g/dL; hemocyte 33%; MCV (mean corpuscular volume), 100 fL; leukocytes, 4,260/mm3 (3,067 neutrophils, 213 eosinophils, 43 basophils, 809 lymphocytes and 128 monocytes); platelets, 146,000/mm3; CK-MB, 1.37 ng/mL; troponin I, 0.081 ng/mL; urea, 26 mg/dL; creatinine, 0.92 mg/dL; sodium 140 mEq/L; potassium 4.9 mEq/L; magnesium, 1.5 mEq/L; C-reactive protein, 6.31 mg/L; B-type natriuretic peptide, 282 pg/mL; PT (INR), 1.2; APTT, 0.97 ratio.
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عنوان ژورنال:
دوره 103 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2014