Zobia Farooq, Ahad Imran, Nazish Imran
Preparing for the future of healthcare: Digital health literacy among medical students in Lahore, Pakistan
Pakistan journal of medical sciences
surgical treatment transformed course outcome congenital heart defects highincome countries children congenital heart diseases subsaharan africa access cardiac surgery limited often experience natural course untreated lesions complications objective study determine prevalence hematologic derangements among ethiopian children unoperated cyanoticcongenital heart diseases identify factors associated coagulopathy population describe complications managed setting singlecenter crosssectional study prospectively collected clinical demographic data children 18 years cyanotic congenital heart diseases blood samples collected measure hematologic parameters polycythemia defined hematocrit 50 thrombocytopenia 150000 per microliter among 70 children recruited overall prevalence polycythemia thrombocytopenia 63 n44 26 n18 respectively multivariate logistic regression analysis hematocrit 65 pvalue024 oxygen saturation 85 pvalue018 independently associated moderate severe thrombocytopenia thirtyone 44 patients undergone therapeutic phlebotomy 84 2631 patients received iron supplementation report high prevalence polycythemia thrombocytopenia ethiopian children untreated cyanotic congenital heart diseases variable implementation iron supplementation therapeutic phlebotomy highlighting need optimize supportive management strategies population mitigate risk lifethreatening complications