Tuyển tập các báo cáo nghiên cứu về y học được đăng trên tạp chí y học Critical Care giúp cho các bạn có thêm kiến thức về ngành y học đề tài: Nucleated red blood cells in the blood of medical intensive care patients indicate increased mortality risk: a prospective cohort study. | Available online http content 11 3 R62 Research Nucleated red blood cells in the blood of medical intensive care patients indicate increased mortality risk a prospective cohort Study Axel Stachon1 Elmar Segbers1 Tim Holland-Letz2 Reiner Kempf1 Steffen Hering3 and Michael Krieg1 Institute of Clinical Chemistry Transfusion and Laboratory Medicine BG-University Hospital Bergmannsheil Buerkle de la Camp-Platz 1 Ruhr-University Bochum 44789 Bochum Germany 2Department of Medical Informatics Biometry and Epidemiology Overbergstrasse 17 Ruhr-University Bochum 44801 Bochum Germany Department of Internal Medicine BG-University Hospital Bergmannsheil Buerkle de la Camp-Platz 1 Ruhr-University Bochum 44789 Bochum Germany Corresponding author Axel Stachon Received 23 Mar 2007 Revisions requested 21 Apr 2007 Revisions received 3 May 2007 Accepted 5 Jun 2007 Published 5 Jun 2007 Critical Care 2007 11 R62 doi cc5932 This article is online at http content 11 3 R62 2007 Stachon et al. licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http licenses by which permits unrestricted use distribution and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited. Open Access Abstract Introduction In critically ill patients the appearance of nucleated red blood cells NRBCs in blood is associated with a variety of severe diseases. Generally when NRBCs are detected in the patients blood the prognosis is poor. Methods In a prospective study the detection of NRBCs was used for a daily monitoring of 383 medical intensive care patients. Results The incidence of NRBCs in medical intensive care patients was 67 383 . The mortality of NRBC-positive patients was 34 67 this was significantly higher p than the mortality of NRBC-negative patients 31 316 . Mortality increased with increasing NRBC .
