Clinicopathological Parameters of Haemophilia Patients at a Tertiary Care Centre in Northern India. 2023

Anurag Singh, and Shalini Rawat, and Rashmi Kushwaha, and Mili Jain, and Shailendra P Verma, and U S Singh
Pathology, King George's Medical University, Lucknow, IND.

BACKGROUND Haemophilia affects a large number of people all over the world, yet very little is known about the clinical manifestations and diagnostic protocols of the condition in areas with limited access to resources in developing countries. Understanding the clinical spectrum and diagnostic approach will help with the design of measures to address the situation in these places. The primary objective of this study was to examine the clinicopathological parameters of haemophiliac patients. METHODS From the departmental archive, a thorough history of each patient was retrieved, including values of bleeding time, prothrombin time, activated partial prothrombin time, and percentage of specific factor activity. RESULTS Out of a total of 385 cases over the period of six years, 86.75% were classified as haemophilia A and 13.25% of cases were diagnosed as haemophilia B. In terms of the severity of the disease, 44.93% were classified as severe, 42.08% as moderate, and 12.99% as mild. Joint bleeding was the first and most typical clinical manifestation of the disease, accounting for 34.80% of cases, followed by ecchymosis (23.12%), post-traumatic bleeding (12.73%), epistaxis (12.20%), and gum bleeding (8.05%). 1.56% of patients had a positive screening test for the hepatitis C virus, followed by 1.30% for HIV and 0.78% for hepatitis B surface antigen. CONCLUSIONS In the presence of joint bleeding, ecchymosis, and post-traumatic bleeding in an otherwise healthy individual, a clinician should be alerted to the possibility that the patient has haemophilia and should request a work-up for the bleeding disorder.

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