To study the growth retardation in relation to age, pretransfusion haemoglobin level, serum ferritin level in pediatrics patients.
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.48047/Keywords:
pre-transfusion, haemoglobin, serum ferritin and iron chelation.Abstract
Background &Method: The aim of this study is to study the growth retardation in relation
to age, pre-transfusion haemoglobin level, serum ferritin level in pediatrics patients.The
serum ferritin level was measured using ADVIA Centaur system at Endocrine laboratories.
The ADVIA Centaur ferritin assay is a two-site sandwich immunoassay using direct
chemiluminometric technology, which uses constant amounts of two anti-ferritin antibodies.
Result:Out of 160 cases, 66 cases were from age group 1-5 years, 60 cases were from age
group 6-10 years and only 34 cases were from age group 11-14 years.
Conclusion: There is significant growth retardation in boys and girls in all the age-groups
when compared with 50th percentile scores by N.C.H.S. Out of 160 cases, 66 cases were from
age group 1-5 years, 60 cases were from age group 6-10 years and only 34 cases were from
age group 11-14 years. Adequate pre-transfusion haemoglobin level should be maintained so
that growth retardation because of anaemia should be minimized.
