<> "The repository administrator has not yet configured an RDF license."^^ . <> . . "Anemia in Antiretroviral Naïve HIV/AIDS Patients: A Study from Eastern India"^^ . "Background: Hematological manifestations are common throughout the course of HIV infection. Impact of anemia is the most significant among them. The present study was undertaken to evaluate the etiologies underlying anemia in HIV/AIDS. Methods This was a non randomized cross sectional observational study conducted in a tertiary care hospital of India over a period of 2 years. One hundred and fifty HIV patients were screened. Thorough clinical and laboratory evaluation was done in 50 randomly selected anemic cases. Results: Proper etiological diagnosis could be reached in 46 patients. Among them correlation between Hb% and CD4 count was statistically insignificant (p = 0.074, r = 0.47) whereas it was significant with absolute lymphocyte and CD4 count (p = 0.006, r = 0.41). There was better correlation of bone marrow iron status with percent saturation of transferrin (p = 0.003, r = 0.54) than with serum ferritin (p = 0.055, r = 0.09). Bone marrow iron status did not have any relationship with CD4 count. Anemia of chronic disease was the commonest etiology (37%) followed by HIV related myelodysplastic syndrome (31%), iron deficiency anemia (13%), bone marrow suppression due to direct involvement by some infective process (7%). Aplastic anemia, multiple myeloma, Hodgkin’s disease, pure red cell aplasia, hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis and vitamin B12 deficiency were detected in one case (2%) each. Conclusions: Etiologies of anemia in HIV/AIDS are multifactorial with anemia of chronic disease being the commonest. For screening of iron deficiency in this group, percent saturation is a better tool than serum ferritin. Absolute lymphocyte count can sometimes be used as a surrogate marker of immunological status in antiretroviral naïve HIV patients, particularly in resource poor areas."^^ . "2012-01-15" . . "10" . "4(4)" . . "BS Kakkilaya"^^ . . . "Online Journal of Health and Allied Sciences"^^ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . "A"^^ . "Ghosh"^^ . "A Ghosh"^^ . . "S"^^ . "Pain"^^ . "S Pain"^^ . . "M"^^ . "Bhattacharyya"^^ . "M Bhattacharyya"^^ . . "A"^^ . "Pande"^^ . "A Pande"^^ . . "A"^^ . "Banerjee"^^ . "A Banerjee"^^ . . "S"^^ . "Saha"^^ . "S Saha"^^ . . "B"^^ . "Ghosh"^^ . "B Ghosh"^^ . . "Srinivas"^^ . "Kakkilaya"^^ . "Srinivas Kakkilaya"^^ . . . . . . "Anemia in Antiretroviral Naïve HIV/AIDS Patients: A Study from Eastern India (PDF)"^^ . . . . . . "2011-4-4.pdf"^^ . . . "Anemia in Antiretroviral Naïve HIV/AIDS Patients: A Study from Eastern India (Other)"^^ . . . . . . "lightbox.jpg"^^ . . . "Anemia in Antiretroviral Naïve HIV/AIDS Patients: A Study from Eastern India (Other)"^^ . . . . . . "preview.jpg"^^ . . . "Anemia in Antiretroviral Naïve HIV/AIDS Patients: A Study from Eastern India (Other)"^^ . . . . . . "medium.jpg"^^ . . . "Anemia in Antiretroviral Naïve HIV/AIDS Patients: A Study from Eastern India (Other)"^^ . . . . . . "small.jpg"^^ . . . "Anemia in Antiretroviral Naïve HIV/AIDS Patients: A Study from Eastern India (Other)"^^ . . . . . . "indexcodes.txt"^^ . . "HTML Summary of #8854 \n\nAnemia in Antiretroviral Naïve HIV/AIDS Patients: A Study from Eastern India\n\n" . "text/html" . . . "Online Journal of Health and Allied Sciences" . .