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Angira Dasgupta | Zendy; Anirban Bagchi | Zendy; Saikat Nag | Zendy; Sujan Bardhan | Zendy; Parthasarathi Bhattacharyya | Zendy

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Profile of respiratory problems in patients presenting to a referral pulmonary clinic

Author(s) -

Angira Dasgupta,

Anirban Bagchi,

Saikat Nag,

Sujan Bardhan,

Parthasarathi Bhattacharyya

Publication year - 2008

Publication title -

lung india

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.457

H-Index - 25

eISSN - 0974-598X

pISSN - 0970-2113

DOI - 10.4103/0970-2113.44129

Subject(s) - medicine , etiology , copd , referral , asthma , respiratory system , chronic cough , bronchogenic carcinoma , airway , tuberculosis , lung , intensive care medicine , pediatrics , pathology , surgery , family medicine

Analysis of OPD data of 2012 patients in a referral pulmonary clinic at Kolkata was done following a protocol-based approach. Obstructive airway diseases (COPD and asthma) were the most common (43%) problem followed by infective lung diseases (15%) including tuberculosis, bronchogenic carcinoma (8%), ILD (4%), haemopty-sis of undiagnosed etiology (4.5%), chronic cough of undiagnosed etiology (6.5%) and pleural diseases (4.6%). Other diseases like obstructive sleep apnoea, sarcoid-osis, systemic diseases with lung involvements etc., and non respiratory problems formed the rest (14.4%).

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