Table 1.
Frequency of various etiologies of thrombocytopenia across different wards
| Ward | Final diagnosis | Total | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| APLA | Aplastic anemia | Chronic liver disease related | Infection related | DIC related | Drug induced thrombocytopenia | Evans syndrome | HELLP | Immune thrombocytopenia | Myelophthisis | Pseudo thrombocytopenia | MDS | Unknown cause | ||
| Emergency | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 20 |
| Medical wards | 2 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 22 |
| Surgical wards | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 21 |
| Gynecological ward/Emg | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 8 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 25 |
| Total | 2 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 10 | 8 | 2 | 4 | 34 | 4 | 8 | 2 | 4 | 88 |
APLA Anti Phospholipid Antibody Syndrome, DIC Disseminated Intravascular Coagulation, HELLP Hemolysis, Elevated Liver enzymes and Low Platelet counts, MDS Myelodysplastic Syndrome, EMG Emergency