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SUBMITTER: Al Saleh AS
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7377299 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Al Saleh Abdullah S AS Sidiqi M Hasib MH Dispenzieri Angela A Kapoor Prashant P Muchtar Eli E Buadi Francis K FK Warsame Rahma R Lacy Martha Q MQ Dingli David D Leung Nelson N Gonsalves Wilson I WI Kourelis Taxiarchis V TV Gertz Morie A MA Go Ronald S RS Kyle Robert A RA Rajkumar S Vincent SV Kumar Shaji K SK
American journal of hematology 20191029 1
Risk stratification of multiple myeloma (MM) at diagnosis is critical. We examined the ability of hematopoietic indices including mean corpuscular volume (MCV), hemoglobin (Hgb), and platelet (Plt) to predict outcomes. This was a retrospective study of patients treated at Mayo Clinic between January 2004 and April 2018. We incorporated three variables (Hgb < 10 g/dL, Plt < 150 × 10<sup>9</sup> /L, and MCV > 96 fL), assigning a score of 1 to each. We identified 1540 newly diagnosed MM patients, o ...[more]