STUDY OF SYMPTOMS AND SIGNS RELATED TO CARDIO-VASCULAR SYSTEM, ESPECIALLY CARDIAC MURMURS IN SEVERE ANAEMIA AND ITS REVERSIBILITY AFTER CORRECTION OF ANAEMIA
Journal Title: Journal of Evidence Based Medicine and Healthcare - Year 2017, Vol 4, Issue 71
Abstract
BACKGROUND Anaemia is one of the commonest clinical problems in our country. It affects various organs including heart. Clinical manifestations of anaemia referable to cardiovascular system may closely simulate symptoms and signs of organic heart disease, especially cardiac murmurs. The cardiac murmurs show either improvement or disappearance after correction of anaemia. The aim of this study was to evaluate various clinical changes (symptoms and signs) related to cardiovascular system in patients of severe anaemia and their reversibility after treatment of anaemia. MATERIALS AND METHODS 94 patients admitted in medicine wards in government general hospital, Solapur for severe anaemia (Hb concentration less than or equal to 7 gm%) were studied. Symptoms, general examinations signs and systemic examination signs related to cardiovascular system were assessed on admission. All patients were treated with deworming, iron therapy (oral or parenteral) or blood transfusion. All symptoms, general examination signs and systemic examination signs were reassessed after treatment. RESULTS 1) Majority symptoms and signs related to cardiovascular system, in patients of severe anaemia were found in females. 2) 54 patients were having cardiac murmur, out of which 45 were females. 3) All symptoms and signs related to cardiovascular system were either improved or disappeared after treatment. CONCLUSION Patients with cardiac symptoms and or signs should be scrutinized for anaemia and treated accordingly especially females. Majority of these patients show disappearance of symptoms and signs after treatment.
Authors and Affiliations
Manjiri Pramod Dhamangaonkar, Jayant Kashinath Golwalkar
Keywords
Related Articles
- EP ID EP277879
- DOI 10.18410/jebmh/2017/842
- Views 63
- Downloads 0
CLINICAL PROFILE OF STROKE PATIENTS WITH REFERENCE TO THE PRESENCE AND DURATION OF MODIFIABLE RISK FACTORS
BACKGROUND Stroke or brain attack is the sudden loss of neurological function caused by interruption of the blood flow to the brain. Ischaemic stroke is the most common type, affecting about 80 percent of individuals wit...
EPIDEMIOLOGICAL ANALYSIS OF MAXILLOFACIAL FRACTURE IN A SEMI-URBAN AREA OF INDIA; A 1 YEAR PROSPECTIVE STUDY
CONTEXT: An accident has been defined as “an unexpected, unplanned occurrence which may involve injury. Accidents represent the major epidemic of non communicable disease in present century. They are no longer considered...
STUDY OF SERUM URIC ACID LEVEL IN DIABETES MELLITUS WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO CARDIOVASCULAR RISK FACTORS
BACKGROUND This study intends to assess the level of serum uric acid in Type 2 diabetes mellitus and to identify whether any association exists between age, sex, anthropometric measurements (BMI, WHR), hypertension, dysl...
PERIANAL DISEASE AS INITIAL MANIFESTATION OF CROHN’S DISEASE
BACKGROUND Crohn’s disease is a chronic inflammatory disease, which involves almost all parts of body. Perianal manifestations maybe the initial presentation in these patients, but usually includes other systemic manifes...
CREUTZFELDT-JAKOB DISEASE: A CASE REPORT
Prion diseases are a group of fatal neurodegenerative diseases caused by the transformation of an endogenous protein, PrP (prion-related protein), into an abnormal conformation, the most common of which in humans is Creu...