Mediterranean Journal of Hematology and Infectious Diseases
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Nigeria has the fourth highest prevalence of TB and the highest prevalence anaemia (SCA) in the world. SCA patients have impaired immunity and are vulnerable to TB. Hence, we studied the haematological indices of SCA patients with TB in Nigeria. A total of 23 SCA patients with TB were studied in parallel with equa SCA patients without TB. SCA patients with TB had significantly lower haematocrit, higher level of circulating sickle cells (CSCs) and similar level of reticulocyte count in comparison to patients without TB. SCA patients wi associated with higher frequency of neutrophilia in comparison to those without TB. Monocytosis and eosinopenia were exclusively found in SCA patients with TB at frequencies of 52% and 65% respectively. Lymphoc with and without TB. Mean platelet counts were high in both patient groups but the frequency of thrombocytosis was significantly higher in patients with TB. SCA patients with TB had significantly higher m findings of this study revealed that TB in SCA patients was associated with rising level of CSCs, falling level of haematocrit, sub thrombocytosis, eosinopenia and rising level of ESR. Hence, SCA patients presenting with these haematological indices should be investigated for TB. Introduction: Sickle cell anaemia (SCA), which is the prototype of the sickling diseases, is the homozygous state for the sickle cell clinical presentation of SCA is due to vaso www.mjhid.org ISSN 2035-3006 Anaemia Patients with Pulmonary
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