scholarly journals A Prospective Comparative Study of Peripheral Blood Smear, Modified Centrifuged Buffy Coat Smear and Rapid Malaria Antigen Detection Test in Diagnosing Malaria at a Tertiary Care Hospital in Western Maharashtra

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (11) ◽  
pp. 67-79
Author(s):  
Sonal Vijay Thavare ◽  
Chaya A. Kumar
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Study ◽  
Peripheral Blood ◽  
Blood Smear ◽  
Tertiary Care Hospital ◽  
Tertiary Care ◽  
Peripheral Blood Smear ◽  
Buffy Coat ◽  
Care Hospital ◽  
Malaria Antigen ◽  
Prospective Comparative Study

scholarly journals Pattern of hematological malignancies diagnosed by peripheral smear examination

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 25-35
Author(s):  
Punam Paudyal ◽  
A Pradhan ◽  
S Pokharel ◽  
N Shah ◽  
B Pradhan ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Acute Leukemia ◽  
Peripheral Blood ◽  
Myeloid Leukemia ◽  
Blood Smear ◽  
Tertiary Care ◽  
Peripheral Blood Smear ◽  
Care Hospital ◽  
Hematopoietic Stem ◽  
Chronic Leukemia ◽  
Smear Examination

 Background: Leukemia is a malignant neoplasm of the hematopoietic stem cells. Examination of the peripheral blood smear is an inexpensive but powerful diagnostic tool in both children and adults suffering from leukemia because it provides rapid, reliable access to information about a variety of hematologic disorders.Objectives: To study the various patterns of leukemia, clinicoepidemiological profile and hematological features of leukemia.Materials and Methods: This is a cross sectional study conducted in the Hematology section of Department of Pathology of a tertiary care hospital. This study included all consecutive cases of leukemia diagnosed by peripheral blood smear examination from 1st June 2013 to 30th May 2014. The demographic indices were noted in a proforma. Investigations including haemoglobin estimation, total leucocyte count and platelet count were done for the study of hematological features. The morphological sub-typing was done according to the FAB classification system for leukemia.Results: Out of total 52 cases, majority of cases were of acute leukemia (65.38%), followed by chronic leukemia (26.92%) and lymphoma spill/ acute leukemia (7.69%). The age range was 2 to 90 years. Mean age was 37.6 year. Majority were male. Mean hemoglobin count for AML and ALL was 6.8 and 5.3 gm/dl respectively.Conclusion: The finding of this study reflects the pattern of leukemia at BPKIHS. Majority of acute leukemia constituted of acute myeloid leukemia (36.53%) cases and majority of chronic leukemia constituted of chronic myeloid leukemia (17.30%) cases.Journal of BP Koirala Institute of Health Sciences, Vol. 1, No. 1, 2018, Page: 25-35

scholarly journals Screening for Thalassemia in Healthy Population at a Tertiary Care Hospital in Eastern Nepal

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 41-45
Author(s):  
Manish Kumar Das ◽  
Niraj Nepal ◽  
Prabesh Chaudhary
Keyword(s):  
Peripheral Blood ◽  
Blood Smear ◽  
Tertiary Care ◽  
Age Groups ◽  
Peripheral Blood Smear ◽  
Healthy Population ◽  
Care Hospital ◽  
Red Cell ◽  
Thalassemia Minor ◽  
Red Cell Indices

Background: Thalassemia is a type of congenital anemia, where there is deficient synthesis of one or more type of globin subunits of normal hemoglobin. This study was undertaken with aims & objective to study the prevalence of thalassemia by comparing Red Blood Cell indices, Peripheral Blood Smear and Electrophoresis in adult volunteers. Material and Methods: The study comprised of 518 cases attending hematological department, who were enrolled in our study after proper informed consent, of which 462 cases were further studied. All cases were subjected to blood sampling for estimation of Hemoglobin, red cell indices and peripheral blood smear. Those samples where peripheral blood smear and Red cell indices were suggestive of thalassemia were subjected to Bio-Rad High Performance Liquid Chromatography based electrophoresis to observe the presence of any abnormal hemoglobin. Results: The mean age of screening sample was 42.91 ± 16.85 years with minimum age of 18 years and maximum age of 85 years. The highest number of cases was in between 21-30 years age groups (19.5%) followed by 41-50 years (17.7%). In the study group, 299 (64.7%) cases were male and 163 (35.3%) cases were female. The prevalence of anemia was found to be 48.16% in males and 68.71% in females with overall prevalence of 55.41%. On electrophoresis reports, 19 cases were diagnosed with thalassemia. The only thalassemia observed was thalassemia minor. The prevalence of thalassemia was found to be 4.11%. Conclusion: Significantly high prevalence of thalassemia minor is found in healthy population.

A Comparative Study of Endoscopic Coblation Adenoidectomy and Regular Curettage Adenoidectomy in a Tertiary Care Hospital in Kerala

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (41) ◽  
pp. 3559-3566
Author(s):  
Abdul Salam R. T. ◽  
Shahul Hameed A. ◽  
Meera Rajan
Keyword(s):  
Blood Loss ◽  
Comparative Study ◽  
Tertiary Care ◽  
Operation Time ◽  
Care Hospital ◽  
Adenoid Tissue ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
Tube Function ◽  
Prospective Comparative Study ◽  
The Mean

BACKGROUND An ideal surgery to remove hypertrophied adenoid mass should be safe, with less bleeding and operation time along with post-operative improvement in the eustachian tubal ventilation and normal respiration. It should also have low morbidity and mortality. Among the various methods described for its removal, the two commonly used methods are conventional cold curettage method and coblation technique. The purpose of this study was to collate the safety and efficacy of endoscopic coblation adenoidectomy with the conventional curettage adenoidectomy. METHODS A prospective comparative study with fifty patients was studied who underwent adenoidectomy. Twenty five patients underwent endoscopy assisted coblation adenoidectomy and twenty five patients underwent regular adenoidectomy by curettage. RESULTS Patients who underwent coblation adenoidectomy showed better results during follow up in terms of completeness of removal. 80 % of children undergoing regular adenoidectomy by curettage method showed remnant adenoid tissue in the nasopharynx at the end of the procedure. But it was 6 % among the children undergoing endoscopic assisted coblation adenoidectomy. The mean duration of operation was higher for endoscopic assisted coblation adenoidectomy which was significant statistically. The mean blood loss was 30.36 ml in regular curettage adenoidectomy; 10.6 ml with endoscopic coblation adenoidectomy. The grading of pain was significantly lower in endoscopic assisted coblation adenoidectomy. There was no significant difference between two groups in terms of eustachian tube function after surgery. CONCLUSIONS Coblation adenoidectomy has significant advantages over conventional adenoidectomy in terms of completeness of removal, reduced blood loss, and lower post-operative pain grade. KEYWORDS Coblation, Adenoidectomy, Curettage, Haemorrhage and Complications

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