Thursday 1 September 2022

28 yr old male with severe anemia.



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I’ve been given this case to solve in an attempt to understand the topic of “patient clinical data analysis" to develop my competency in reading and comprehending clinical data including history, clinical findings, investigations, and come up with diagnosis and treatment plan.


 A 28 year old male patient came to opd with chief complaint of blood in the stools since 1 1/2 year &Sob on exertion since 1 year.


History of presenting illness:


Patient was apparently normal 1 1/2 year back then he noticed bleeding per rectum(once in every 1-2 months) , not associated with any pain during defecation , no mass per rectum and there is fresh drop of blood per rectum. Aggravated whenever he straining while passing stools .


Since 1 year he developed sob on exertion not associated with chest pain , no palpitations, no giddiness.


 He has fever since 1 week which is of low grade associated with chills and dry cough at first he went to RMP but fever did not subsided.Then he was refered to local hospital in Miryalaguda where he had  


  Hemoglobin- 2.1% 


   RBC - 1.5 millions/ mm3


    Platelets- 1 lakh 


From there he was referred here for gastroenterologist 



History of past illness:


 H/o polio at the age of 5 years


Not a known case of diabetes, hypertension,asthma, epilepsy 



Treatment history:


He had under gone a surgery in his left thigh 


Personal history:


Diet - mixed 


Appetite- normal


Bowel - regular ( with blood)


Bladder - regular


No addictions


Family history:


No signicant family history 


General examination:


Patient is conscious, coherent, cooperative.


pallor - present 




NO icterus , cyanosis, clubbing , lymphadenopathy, pedal edema 






Vitals:


Temperature - afebrile , BP:-110/70mmhg ,


PR:- 94 bpm,


RR- 16 cpm, 


Spo2:- 98%


Systemic examination:


CVS :- S1,S2 +( Increase in jvp)


R/S :- BAE +(bronchial artery embolisation)


P/A :- SOFT ,NON Tender with mild splenomegaly 


CNS : no functional deficits 


Investigations:


Date:18-8-22


19-8-22


                     
20-8-22

Esr

Lft





Fissures in anus



Provisional diagnosis:


Severe anemia secondary to Bleeding per rectum 


Treatment:


INJ.VITCOFOL IM/OD


TAB.OROFER-XT. PO/OD        










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