Common presentation of an uncommon anaemia in a resource-limited setting: A diagnostic challenge

A 38-year-old female in the reproductive age group presented with anaemia in a resource-poor setting. The patient was given multiple transfusions during the course of her treatment. After a proper work-up she was diagnosed with Coomb's negative autoimmune haemolytic anaemia (AIHA). She was late...

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Autores principales: Roy, Shankar, Pathania, Monika, Kant, Ravi, Dhar, Minakshi, Amisha, Malik, Paras, Rathaur, Vyas Kumar
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2019
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6881960/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31803690
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/jfmpc.jfmpc_529_19
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author Roy, Shankar
Pathania, Monika
Kant, Ravi
Dhar, Minakshi
Amisha,
Malik, Paras
Rathaur, Vyas Kumar
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description A 38-year-old female in the reproductive age group presented with anaemia in a resource-poor setting. The patient was given multiple transfusions during the course of her treatment. After a proper work-up she was diagnosed with Coomb's negative autoimmune haemolytic anaemia (AIHA). She was later treated with steroid and she showed significant improvement. Early diagnosis in her case at the primary care level with other causes of anaemia in mind could have prevented unnecessary transfusions and morbidity. Proper history and approach to anaemia is the key in a resource-poor setting.
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spelling pubmed-68819602019-12-04 Common presentation of an uncommon anaemia in a resource-limited setting: A diagnostic challenge Roy, Shankar Pathania, Monika Kant, Ravi Dhar, Minakshi Amisha, Malik, Paras Rathaur, Vyas Kumar J Family Med Prim Care Case Report A 38-year-old female in the reproductive age group presented with anaemia in a resource-poor setting. The patient was given multiple transfusions during the course of her treatment. After a proper work-up she was diagnosed with Coomb's negative autoimmune haemolytic anaemia (AIHA). She was later treated with steroid and she showed significant improvement. Early diagnosis in her case at the primary care level with other causes of anaemia in mind could have prevented unnecessary transfusions and morbidity. Proper history and approach to anaemia is the key in a resource-poor setting. Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2019-11-15 /pmc/articles/PMC6881960/ /pubmed/31803690 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/jfmpc.jfmpc_529_19 Text en Copyright: © 2019 Journal of Family Medicine and Primary Care http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0 This is an open access journal, and articles are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as appropriate credit is given and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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