Profile of respiratory problems in patients presenting to a referral pulmonary clinic.
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%).
Dasgupta
Angira
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The Institute of Pulmocare and Research, CB-16, Salt Lake, Sector - I, Kolkata - 700064, India.
Bagchi
Anirban
A
Nag
Saikat
S
Bardhan
Sujan
S
Bhattacharyya
Parthasarathi
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