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Table 3 Blood volume data and selected laboratory data of heart transplant recipients with and without anemia

From: Blood volume and hemoglobin mass in long-term heart transplant recipients with and without Anemia

 

HTX

Anemic

N

Non-anemic

N

p

Absolute

 Hbmass (g)

593 ± 168

7

831 ± 209

29

0.009

 RCV (ml)

1892 ± 615

7

2450 ± 624

29

0.059

 PV (ml)

3893 ± 1195

7

3866 ± 767

29

0.955

 BV (ml)

5785 ± 1802

7

6316 ± 1347

29

0.487

BSA-corrected

 Hb mass (g/m2)

303 ± 48

7

406 ± 80

29

<  0.001

 RCV (ml/m2)

961 ± 176

7

1198 ± 236

29

0.012

 PV (ml/m2)

1984 ± 343

7

1903 ± 303

29

0.580

 BV (ml/m2)

2945 ± 511

7

3101 ± 508

29

0.488

Additional data

 [Hb] venous (g/dl)

11.4 ± 0.8

7

14.3 ± 1.2

25

<  0.001

 Hct venous (%)

35.8 ± 1.5

7

42.8 ± 3.3

25

<  0.001

 Erythrocytes (Mio/μl)

4.5 ± 0.5

7

5.2 ± 0.5

25

0.007

 MCV

80.0 ± 6.1

7

82.1 ± 4.9

25

0.431

 MCH

25.4 ± 2.8

7

27.5 ± 1.8

25

0.108

 MCHC

31.7 ± 1.6

7

33.5 ± 0.8

25

0.024

 Iron (μg/dl)

48 ± 18

7

81 ± 26

26

0.002

 Ferritin (ng/ml)

198 ± 269

7

123 ± 88

25

0.531

 Transferrin saturation (%)

15 ± 6

6

21 ± 7

26

0.044

 Vitamin D (ng/ml)

24 ± 15

6

25 ± 14

24

0.902

 CRP (mg/l)

6.6 ± 4.2

5

9.9 ± 7.4

14

0.246

 Serum-creatinine (mg/dl)

1.4 ± 0.4

7

1.2 ± 0.4

25

0.335

 GFR (ml/min)

59 ± 29

7

73 ± 28

25

0.306

 Urea (mg/dl)

62 ± 28

7

45 ± 26

25

0.182

  1. Footnote: Data presented mean ± SD. HTX = heart transplant recipients. BSA = body surface area. Hbmass = total hemoglobin mass. RCV = red cell volume. PV = plasma volume. BV = blood volume. [Hb] = venous hemoglobin concentration. Hct = venous hematocrit. MCV = mean corpuscular volume. MCH = mean corpuscular hemoglobin. MCHC = mean corpuscular hemoglobin concentration. CRP = C-reactive protein. GFR = Glomerular filtration rate. N indicates the number of patients/subjects for whom data was available. p indicates the p-value (bold numbers indicate statistical significance)