the pharmacokinetics of recombinant human erythropoietin (rhuepo) administered intravenously has been investigated in a group of five patients with chronic renal failure who were dialysis-dependent. the half-life of circulating erythropoietin decreased from 7.9±oa hr (mean ±so) at the beginning of treatment to 6.2±o.6 hr after 6 weeks and 5a±o.9 hr after 4 months of treatment. in spite of the s...

Objective: In recent years, there has been a great attention concerning red blood cell distribution width (RDW) in clinical decisions as well as determining the severity of diseases. This study was conducted to evaluate the primary level of RDW to predict hospital mortality in pancreatitis. Methods: This was a descriptive analytical study performed on 100 pati...

The distribution of red blood cells in alveolar capillaries is typically nonuniform, as shown by intravital microscopy and in alveolar tissue fixed in situ. To determine the effects of red cell distribution on pulmonary diffusive gas transport, we computed the uptake of CO across a two-dimensional geometric capillary model containing a variable number of red blood cells. Red blood cells are spa...

background: acute appendicitis (aa) is one of the most common causes of emergent surgeries. many methods are used for its diagnosis. objectives: this study was conducted to investigate the diagnostic value of mpv and rdw in acute appendicitis. patients and methods: this study was a retrospective multi-center cross sectional planned study. the study included 260 patients operated for aa and 158 ...

OBJECTIVE Acute cholecystitis is a common disease requiring accurate markers for diagnosis and proper treatment. The aim of this study was to investigate the role of red cell distribution width (RDW) in acute cholecystitis. MATERIAL AND METHODS 299 were included in the study. The subjects were divided into 2 groups; group 1 (n: 46) acute cholecystitis group and group 2 (n: 253) chronic cholec...

background: the amount of literature concerning the implication of the red cell distribution width (rdw) in the assessment of ulcerative colitis (uc) activity is rather limited. the aim of this study is to investigate the potential role of rdw in the evaluation of uc disease activity. materials and methods: a total of 96 patients with uc and 51 age and sex-matched healthy volunteers were includ...

xxx (14.5%). These differences may be explained by the different types of equipment on the market today where the cell measurement methods may be different. Regarding erythrogram and leukogram parameters, the values found for both women and men did not show significant differences compared to values reported in the literature.(1,2,8) Reference values, stratified by gender, are described in Tabl...

This paper presents estimations of the parameters included in linear exponential distribution, based on grouped and censored data. The methods of maximum likelihood, regression and Bayes are discussed. The maximum likelihood method does not provide closed forms for the estimations, thus numerical procedure is used. The regression estimates of the parameters are used as guess values to get the m...