A clinical profile of male adult anaemic patients at tertiary health care centre
Journal Title: Medpulse International Journal of Medicine - Year 2017, Vol 3, Issue 3
Abstract
Background: Anaemia is a reduction in the oxygen carrying capacity of the blood resulting in tissue hypoxia. Aims and Objectives: To study Clinical profile of male adult anaemic patients at tertiary health care center. Methodology: This was a cross-sectional study in 50 patients admitted to the medical wards of P.D.S.C.G.H. Male patients between 12 and 60 years of age, with anemia and hemoglobin of less than 7gm% were included in the study. Result: The age of the patients in this study ranged from 12-60 years with a means of 37.3 years. The duration of the illness ranged from 1 month to 9 years, with a mean of 10.54 months. All the patients had easy fatiguability and tiredness. 60% of then had giddiness followed by shortness of breath on exertion in 42%. 8 patients had paraesthesias and all of them had a megaloblastic marrow. One patients presented with sub acute degeneration of spinal cord and a megaloblastic marrow. Overall 9 of the 21 patients (42%.8%) with megaloblastic marrow had neurological symptoms on presentation Conclusion: It can be concluded from our study that the most common clinical features were easy fatigability, tiredness, giddiness, shortness of breath on exertion paraesthesias etc.
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Mazhar Saleem Mirza, Pramod Prabhu Ghuge
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