EFFICACY OF AUTOMATED CELL COUNTER WITH
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Haemoglobin, anaemia, pregnancy, thalassemia
Abstract
The present study was conducted in the department of Pathology and Gynaecology, in a tertiary health care center of North India and comprised of 361 anaemic antenatal women attending outdoor and admitted in indoor department of Gynaecology willing to enroll for the study were randomly selected and subjected to screening procedure for hemoglobinopathies. Result: Antenatal group included total 361 cases, most of them were in the second trimester (60.1%). There was found negative correlation between number of pregnancies and mean haemoglobin value. Out of 361 cases; 27 were positive for various haemoglobinopathies giving a prevalence of 7.5 % in anemic mothers. The positive cases included 22 cases of β-thalassemia trait, 2 cases of HbS trait, 1 case of HbD trait, 1 case of HbE trait and 1 case of HbE homozygous.
Conclusion: Automated cell counter based parameters and formulae are good, rapid, cheaper and easily available methods for screening of haemoglobinopathies especially for thalassemia trait detection.
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Sonia Singh
Assistant Professor, Department of Pathology, Kalpana Chawla Government Medical College, Karnal, Haryana, India
Ajit Singh
Associate Professor, Department of Pathology, Kalpana Chawla Government Medical College, Karnal, Haryana, India
Nidhi Kaushik
Assistant Professor, Department of Pathology, Kalpana Chawla Government Medical College, Karnal, Haryana, India
Parul
Senior Resident/Demonstrator, Department of Pathology, Kalpana Chawla Government Medical College, Karnal, Haryana, India
Kamna
Senior Resident/Demonstrator, Department of Pathology, Kalpana Chawla Government Medical College, Karnal, Haryana, India
Hemlata Kamra
Professor and HOD, Department of Pathology, Kalpana Chawla Government Medical College, Karnal, Haryana