THE ROLE OF COMPLETE BLOOD COUNT IN PATIENTS WITH HETEROZYGOUS BETA THALASSEMIA
Journal Title: Kocatepe Medical Journal - Year 2021, Vol 6, Issue 22
Abstract
OBJECTIVE: The goal of this study was to compare the Mean Platelet Volume (MPV), Platelet Lymphocyte ratio, and Neutrophil Lymphocyte ratio by evaluating the parameters of Complete Blood Count in healthy children and patients with heterozygous Beta-thalassemia (HBT). MATERIAL AND METHODS: Between July 2016 and September 2019, 60 patients admitted to the pediatric hematology-oncology outpatient clinic diagnosed with HBT and 60 healthy control subjects of similar age and sex were analyzed retrospectively. Children over one year old, whose hemoglobin A2 levels were above 3.5% were included in the study population. RESULTS: A total of 120 subjects were enrolled in this study. The HBT group included 60 subjects (32 males and 28 females) and the control group included 60 (36 males and 24 females). There were no significant differences between the two groups in terms of age and gender (p=0.29 and p=0.27). Platelet count, MPV, lymphocyte, and ferritin were significantly higher in the HBT group, whereas hemoglobin was significantly lower in the HBT group as compared with the control group. CONCLUSIONS: Increased MPV and platelets in healthy HBT patients may cause hypercoagulability and may play a role with other risk factors in the predisposition of thrombosis in adult cases. There are very few studies on the incidence of thromboembolic events in cases with HBT. It is necessary to monitor adult HBT cases especially in terms of thromboembolic events, and to study with more cases.
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Özge VURAL, Hilal SUSAM ŞEN, İbrahim EKER
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- EP ID EP697199
- DOI https://doi.org/10.18229/kocatepetip.723959
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