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The presence of anemia in patients with leg ulcer: laboratory test
Beatriz Guitton Renaud Baptista de Oliveira1, Joyce Beatriz de Abreu Castro2, Emilly Freire Novaes Silva Lisboa1
1Universidade Federal Fluminense. Niterói, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Objective:
To evaluate the presence of anemia in patients with chronic lower limb ulcers based on profile and hematometric indices.
Method:
This is a cross-sectional study carried out in a university hospital in Rio de Janeiro. The sample was composed of 64 participants with lower limb ulcers and evolution time greater than 12 weeks. Data was collected between May/2016 and December/2017 from hematological analyses, records from medical records, and wound assessment form.
Results:
36 (56.2%) were male; 38 (59.4%) between 60 and 80 years old; 56 (87.5%) with chronic diseases and 52 (81.2%) with venous ulcers. 6 years mean of active ulceration. Anemia was detected in 36 (56.2%), 27 (75%) of which were normochromic and normocytic; 14 (38.8%) had deficiency anemia recorded in their medical chart.
Conclusion:
The low hemoglobin concentration is recurrent among the participants characterizing an anemia condition, whose profile reveals congruence to the anemia of chronic disease.
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