Abstract:
This descriptive study was conducted to determine the incidence of iron
deficiency anaemia in 100 patients with low Hb attending KTH from
October 2008 to March, 2009.
The blood samples were collected from such patients before iron
treatment and tested for complete haemogram (automated method) to find
out the haemoglobin (HB) concentration, packed cells volume (PCV),red
cells count (RBC),and red cell indices, as well as a well prepared well
stained blood films were studied to evaluate the abnormal morphology of
cells.
Thereafter, the serums were tested for iron profile to measure iron,
ferritin level and total iron binding capacity value.
Results of the study showed that
The majority of patients showed reduction in Hb, PCV, and RBCs
count, MCV, MCH and MCHC.
But the iron deficiency anaemia among the study population was low
from our suspected cases.
The iron profile show variable results in our expected IDA cases due
to other chronic diseases.
Most patients were suffered from Malaria, dysentery, typhoid and
haemorrhage and other inflammation that give high ferritin level.
There was a significant correlation between CBC result and female
serum ferritin in addition to TIBC results.
Also there was in significant relation ship between results of CBC and
the serum iron and male serum ferritin values.
