Characterization of patients with thrombocytopenia in a third level of complexity institution in Medellin, Colombia.
Caracterización de pacientes con trombocitopenia en una institución de tercer nivel de complejidad Medellín, Colombia.
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Objective: characterize patients with thrombocytopenia in a third level-of-complexity institution in Medellín, Colombia. Materials and methods: a retrospective descriptive study was carried out, which included all patients with thrombocytopenia-related diagnosis treated in a level-of-complexity institution in the city of Medellin, during the January 2016 to December 2017-time period. A non-probabilistic sampling of consecutive cases was done. Results: 25 patients with thrombocytopenia were included. 80% of them (20) corresponded to children under 1 year of age and 20% (5) to people over 18 years of age, 52% (13) were male. Median in-hospital stay for adults was 10 days with a P25 of 5 and P75 of 39, for those aged <1 year, it was 32 (P25: 15 and P75: 53,25). 80% (20) of the patients were classified with unspecified thrombocytopenia, the remaining 20% (5) with secondary thrombocytopenia. The platelet counts in adults had a median of 95.000 cells/mm3 (P25: 67.000 and P75: 122.00) and in <1 year the median was 79.000 cells/mm3 (P25: 53.750 and P75: 109.750). Conclusions: thrombocytopenia was more common in children under 1 year and in the male sex, requiring longer hospital stays. Thrombocytopenia for both groups was classified as mild and according to its diagnosis as unspecified.
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