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Differences in routine laboratory parameters related to cachexia between patients with hematological diseases and patients with solid tumors or heart failure – is there only one cachexia?

BACKGROUND: Cachexia is a state of involuntary weight loss common to many chronic diseases. Experimental data, showing that cachexia is related to the enhancement of acute phase response reaction, led to the new definition of cachexia that included, aside from the principal criterion of weight loss,...

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Autores principales: Letilovic, Tomislav, Perkov, Sonja, Mestric, Zlata Flegar, Vrhovac, Radovan
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3568018/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23294910
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1475-2891-12-6