Zusammenfassung der Ressource
I always feel tired
- Differential diagnosis of dyspnea
- Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
- Asthma
- Congestive heart failure
- Acute coronary syndrome
- Pneumonia
- Pulmonary embolism
- history taking
- Onset, duration and
progress (trauma?)
- Age & sex (different Hb levels)
- Associated symptoms (pain?
bleeding? ulcer? cancer?)
- history of gastrointestinal
(Abdominal pain , consumption )
- Family history (thalassemia?)
- Gynecological history
- Previous CBC
- History of fever ( infection ? Inflammation ?)
- Changes in bowel habits
- History of chronic illness
- Diet (Iron,B2,Folate)
- Drug ingestion (NSAID)
- investigations
- Hemoglobin (g/L)
- Packed Cell Volume
- Mean Corpuscular Volume(fL)
- assessing RBC
size, shape &
colour
- Macrocytosis
- Red cell Distribution Width (Percent)
- Red Blood Cell count
- White Blood Cell count
- Platelet Count
- Iron studies
- Serum iron Male (87-150µg/dL) Female(72-130 µg/dL)
- Total iron-binding capacity (240-450 ug/dL) Transferrin(2-4g/L)
- Ferritin Males( 30-400 ug/L) Females(13-150 ug/L)
- Gel Electrophoresis
- hemopoiesis
- erythropoiesis
- leukopoiesis
- iron metabolism
- Anemia
- classification
- iron deficiency
anemia
- Treatments: Iron
supplements
- dietary changes
- RBC