A Narrative Review on Association of Anaemia with Tuberculosis

Tuberculosis (TB) is defined as an illness which induces systemic inflammation often affecting the lungs causing fever, cough and chest pain. The most common comorbidity associated with tuberculosis is anaemia. Anaemia is a condition which results from reduced red blood cells. This review article aims to provide a better understanding of pathophysiology and role of cytokines that lead to development of anaemia in TB patients. Our study has accumulated risk factors that are involved in occurrence of anaemia in TB patients. Articles focuses on importance of ferritin and hepcidin in investigating the presence of anaemia. It has reviewed the type of treatment given to patients such as Antitubercular therapy and Iron Therapy with an objective to identify which helps in improving the severity of anaemia condition.