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
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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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author Dasgupta, Angira
Bagchi, Anirban
Nag, Saikat
Bardhan, Sujan
Bhattacharyya, Parthasarathi
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description 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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spelling pubmed-28511482010-04-13 PROFILE OF RESPIRATORY PROBLEMS IN PATIENTS PRESENTING TO A REFERRAL PULMONARY CLINIC Dasgupta, Angira Bagchi, Anirban Nag, Saikat Bardhan, Sujan Bhattacharyya, Parthasarathi Lung India Original Article 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%). Medknow Publications 2008 /pmc/articles/PMC2851148/ /pubmed/20390068 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0970-2113.44129 Text en © Lung India http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
spellingShingle Original Article
Dasgupta, Angira
Bagchi, Anirban
Nag, Saikat
Bardhan, Sujan
Bhattacharyya, Parthasarathi
PROFILE OF RESPIRATORY PROBLEMS IN PATIENTS PRESENTING TO A REFERRAL PULMONARY CLINIC
title PROFILE OF RESPIRATORY PROBLEMS IN PATIENTS PRESENTING TO A REFERRAL PULMONARY CLINIC
title_full PROFILE OF RESPIRATORY PROBLEMS IN PATIENTS PRESENTING TO A REFERRAL PULMONARY CLINIC
title_fullStr PROFILE OF RESPIRATORY PROBLEMS IN PATIENTS PRESENTING TO A REFERRAL PULMONARY CLINIC
title_full_unstemmed PROFILE OF RESPIRATORY PROBLEMS IN PATIENTS PRESENTING TO A REFERRAL PULMONARY CLINIC
title_short PROFILE OF RESPIRATORY PROBLEMS IN PATIENTS PRESENTING TO A REFERRAL PULMONARY CLINIC
title_sort profile of respiratory problems in patients presenting to a referral pulmonary clinic
topic Original Article
url 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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