RETROSPECTIVE EVALUATION OF PATIENTS DIAGNOSED WITH ANEMIA AT THE DEPARTMENT OF PEDIATRIC HEMATOLOGY IN AFYONKARAHISAR HEALTH SCIENCES UNIVERSITY BETWEEN 2016-2018
Journal Title: Kocatepe Medical Journal - Year 2022, Vol 23, Issue 2
Abstract
OBJECTIVE: Anemia is a common public health problem worldwide. Anemia is defined as decrease of 2 standard deviations or more on the hemoglobin or hematocrit values determined by age and gender. The most common type of anemia in children is iron deficiency anemia. The aim of the study is to evaluate the clinical characteristics, laboratory findings and treatment processes of patients diagnosed with anemia in the Pediatric Hematology Department of Afyonkarahisar Health Sciences University, and to inform the physicians working in our region about the follow-up and treatment of patients diagnosed with anemia. MATERIAL AND METHODS: Patients with anemia who applied to the Department of Pediatric Hematology in Afyonkarahisar Health Sciences University, Faculty of Medicine between 2016 and 2018 years were included in the study. Epidemiological, demographic, clinical and laboratory characteristics and treatment processes of the patients were evaluated retrospectively. RESULTS: The study group consisted of 153 patients, 91 (59.5%) of them were girls, 62 (40.5%) were boys, the mean age was 6.7 ± 5.5 years. It was found that 52.3% of the patients in the study group had nutritional anemia, 20.9% had hemoglobinopathy, 7.2% had anemia due to infection and 6.5% had anemia due to malignancy. When the patients with nutritional anemia were examined, the most common resaon of nutritional anemia was isolated iron deficiency. CONCLUSIONS: Iron deficiency anemia continues to be common, especially in the pediatric patients. Insufficiency in ironrich food intake is seen as one of the important causes of iron deficiency anemia. Therefore, it is important to advise and inform families to improve their nutritional habits in infancy and childhood in a manner that will prevent iron deficiency, in order to reduce the prevalence of iron deficiency anemia. In this study we found that the frequency of thalassemia trait is also high in our region in pediatric patients with anemia. These results are important for family physicians and pediatricians in order to prevent unnecessary iron therapy use.
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Mehmet Fatih YÜCEL, İbrahim EKER, Özge VURAL
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