PROFILE OF RESPIRATORY PROBLEMS IN PATIENTS PRESENTING TO A REFERRAL PULMONARY CLINIC

Analysis of OPD data of 2012 patients in a referral pulmonary clinic at Kolkata was done following a protocol-based approach. Obstructive airway diseases (COPD and asthma) were the most common (43%) problem followed by infective lung diseases (15%) including tuberculosis, bronchogenic carcinoma (8%)...

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Autores principales: Dasgupta, Angira, Bagchi, Anirban, Nag, Saikat, Bardhan, Sujan, Bhattacharyya, Parthasarathi
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications 2008
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2851148/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20390068
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0970-2113.44129
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Sumario:Analysis of OPD data of 2012 patients in a referral pulmonary clinic at Kolkata was done following a protocol-based approach. Obstructive airway diseases (COPD and asthma) were the most common (43%) problem followed by infective lung diseases (15%) including tuberculosis, bronchogenic carcinoma (8%), ILD (4%), haemopty-sis of undiagnosed etiology (4.5%), chronic cough of undiagnosed etiology (6.5%) and pleural diseases (4.6%). Other diseases like obstructive sleep apnoea, sarcoid-osis, systemic diseases with lung involvements etc., and non respiratory problems formed the rest (14.4%).

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